FC3, Linuxant, stock kernel (2.6.9-1.667) and 4k stacks

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Scot L. Harris wrote:

>The DWL-G650 card I have uses a prism54 chip set not atheros.  As such I
>don't think the madwifi drivers will work.  There is the prism54.org
>driver that I have been using with FC2.
>
>I am hoping that either this is built into FC3 or that driver will work
>when I do the upgrade.
>

the smc-cards with the prism54-chip works great with the current updates 
for FC3 (wireless-tools?, initscripts?)
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/

move the firmware into /lib/firmware/
see release-notes

# ls /lib/firmware/isl3890
/lib/firmware/isl3890

http://prism54.org/firmware/
http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/


configure your device and all is ok.

# iwconfig eth2
eth2      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"******"  Nickname:"******"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:04:E2:C6:F2:30
          Bit Rate:54Mb/s   Tx-Power=31 dBm   Sensitivity=20/200
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx   Security 
mode:restricted
          Link Quality=205/0  Signal level=-51 dBm  Noise level=-6 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

-- 
shrek-m

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