missing zd1211rx firmware

[Philip Walden]

Philip Walden wrote:
> I just bought a Airlink awll3026 USB wireless adapter as it supposedly 
> is supported by the zd1211 driver in FC6.
>
> When I plug it in I get in dmesg:
>
> usb 1-1: Could not load firmware file zd1211/zd1211b_ub. Error number -2
> zd1211rw 1-1:1.0: couldn't load firmware. Error number -2
> usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
> zd1211rw: probe of 1-1:1.0 failed with error -2
> usbcore: registered new interface driver zd1211rw
> ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, 
> RF5413)
> wlan: 0.8.4.2 (0.9.2.1)
>
> Googling around I see that some file is expected to be found in 
> /lib/firmware, but this directory is empty.
>
> Is there some package I specifically need to install to get the 
> firmware? I have 2.6.19-1.2911.fc6.
Here is my lsmod. Note the zd1211rw driver is loaded
Module                  Size  Used by
ath_pci                97060  0
ath_rate_sample        18304  1 ath_pci
wlan                  191708  2 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
ath_hal               195792  2 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
zd1211rw               54213  0
ieee80211softmac       38081  1 zd1211rw
ieee80211              36233  2 zd1211rw,ieee80211softmac
ieee80211_crypt        10561  1 ieee80211
autofs4                25797  2
hidp                   24513  2
rfcomm                 47065  0
l2cap                  32065  10 hidp,rfcomm
bluetooth              62245  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc                166141  1
video                  21061  0
sbs                    20097  0
ibm_acpi               31809  0
i2c_ec                  9281  1 sbs
dock                   12377  0
button                 10961  0
battery                14533  0
asus_acpi              20825  0
ac                      9541  0
ipv6                  276481  20
lp                     16905  0
joydev                 13697  0
floppy                 61477  0
snd_maestro3           30149  1
snd_ac97_codec         99813  1 snd_maestro3
serio_raw              11333  0
snd_ac97_bus            6593  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           8133  0
snd_seq_oss            37057  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11841  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                57009  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         12365  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            46433  0
snd_mixer_oss          20545  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                80965  3 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
i2c_piix4              12749  0
ide_cd                 42593  0
snd_timer              26693  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         14281  1 snd_pcm
i2c_core               26049  2 i2c_ec,i2c_piix4
snd                    58181  11
snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
parport_pc             31205  1
3c59x                  47721  0
pcspkr                  7360  0
mii                     9665  1 3c59x
parport                40841  2 lp,parport_pc
cdrom                  38753  1 ide_cd
soundcore              12193  1 snd
dm_snapshot            22513  0
dm_zero                 6337  0
dm_mirror              26897  0
dm_mod                 63321  8 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
ata_piix               20041  0
libata                109272  1 ata_piix
sd_mod                 25025  0
scsi_mod              141805  2 libata,sd_mod
ext3                  136905  2
jbd                    65001  1 ext3
ehci_hcd               35661  0
ohci_hcd               25433  0
uhci_hcd               28237  0