wifi pb with netgear card wg511

Forum: Networking
Topic: wifi pb with netgear card wg511
started by: chpnp

Posted by chpnp on Mar. 30 2008,21:55

Hi everyone,

I am struggling to have wifi work on my laptop
this is a prism based card
Starting with runlevel 2 i can see that the card is detected properly (it seems)
Network device eth0 detected. DHCP broadcastin for ip (backgrounding)
Then after a few seconds, i get error messages:

prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'
eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890')
eth0: islpci_reset: failure

i have been able to successfully load the driver with ndiswrapper.

any hint ?
Thanks
Christophe

PS FWIW I tried Tinyme and I could both use the default proposed driver (intersil corp prsim gt 802.11G 54 Mbps wireless controller)
and use ndiswrapper to sucessuffly configure that same card.

Posted by chpnp on Mar. 30 2008,21:57

Correction:

on DSL I have *NOT* been able to successfully load the driver (otherwise I would not ask)

christophe