Re: Prism54 on SMC2802 PCI card
Bob Farmer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.prism54.user |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
First and foremost, you'll note that the prism54 documentation clearly says that it requires a 2.4.23+ kernel (2.4.25+ in the newer versions of prism54). Red Hat 9 is a fairly outdated OS these days, and there are no newer kernel RPMs available for it. If you are capable of manually upgrading your kernel, do it. Otherwise, try a newer distro, perhaps Fedora Core 2 would be a good choice. It may even have builtin prism54 support, since it does use the 2.6 kernel...not sure (does anyone know?) Bob Simoneau, Mario wrote: > I'm using Red Hat Linux 9 distribution and I want to install the SMC2802W > wireless PCI card. I unpacked the latest tarball > (prism54-cvs-latest.tar.bz2) and tried to compile (following the README > instructions). I had to get the "kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm" from > "redhat.com" (cause I had the 2-disk release...). > > When compiling the tarball with "make KDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 clean > modules" I have a missing file "linux/firmware.h"... error. > > I tried to copy a "firmware.h" file from another kernel source tree that I > have. The same compilation leads to the following error: "Firmware Loading > is not configured in the kernel!" > > I tried to activate "Library routines---> Hotplug firmware loading support" > using the "make menuconfig" command....but it cannot be set (pressing > "enter" on the "Library routines" line doesn't change anything). > > What do I do next??? Is there a patch to install in order to have the > "firmware" services??? Should I use another "kernel-source" RPM.??? Is there > another way to make the card work??? > > Thanks for any useful info... > > Mario > > > _______________________________________________ > Prism54-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://prism54.org/mailman/listinfo/prism54-users