SuSE sees my PCMCIA card but won't use it....

On 11/18/2009 01:17 PM, malcolmlewis wrote:
>

> Hi
> Me too… how about starting a new post in the wireless subforum about
> the firmware issue and add a link back to this thread.

I thought that the driver was a “normal” one and that it would read the firmware
files from /lib/firmware. I found out later, and told you so here, that this
driver needs to use programs from the hostap-utils package to load the firmware.
You can delete those .hex files from /lib/firmware.

This problem shows why the kernel developers no longer allow strange drivers
like this into the kernel. All modern drivers must load firmware from a binary
file that is in /lib/firmware.

I’m lost too, and have not found any working samples for loading this firmware.

Alright… Sounds like a good idea…

Sorry for starting this in the wrong forum again and thanks for the help.