>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf >Of Robert Heller >Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:42 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: Auto-installing security updates? > >> The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that? > >I'm not sure what the firmware does exactly. Look in your >/var/log/messages file. There will be some mention of 'failed to load >firmware' associated with the driver load. You need to have a >partitular file living in /lib/firmware/ -- the name is wired into the >driver. The SMC Ez Connect card needed something called isl3890. I >don't remember where I got this. My Intel card needed ipw2100-1.3*, >this I got off a site after googling for 'firmware ipw2100' (or >something like that). Getting the Intel was easy -- there is a web >site with all of the info needed. Getting the prism firware was a bit >of a hassle. You might have to unpack a file from the CD that came >with the WiFi card -- this means you need some Windows tool to >unpack/install it someplace and then copy the magic file from where the >Windows installer/unpacker puts it to your Linux box and make sure it >has the proper name. It is important to get the correct version for >your card. So Intel seems to be the way to go if you want to make wifi relatively painless to install and get working on linux? -- /Sorin
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