Well, it’s a bit challenging.
I can bring up my prism54 card with WEP well enough under the live CD
(I position the firmware on a thumb drive, and copy the file to
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890 after booting), but I have been beaten
down trying to get genkernel to do the Right Thing for the PCMCIA subsystem.
This is 2004.3, emerge gentoo-dev-sources, on a Dell D800.
Thank you for your post, though: genkernel all is apparently too naive for
my situation.
The wireless card situation has all the appeal of a winmodem.
I grasp that the manufacturers have various legal/business reasons for the
‘firmware’ nonsense (what a goofy euphemism), and I understand Linus has a
Pontius Pilate policy about them, but I hope that the situation can evolve
to the point that using this hardware under Linux isn’t such a flogging for a
medium-weight geek like me.
Party!
Daniel Lemiresays:
Gentoo might not be the best distro in your case. Have you tried Redhat or Mandrake?
Well, it’s a bit challenging.
I can bring up my prism54 card with WEP well enough under the live CD
(I position the firmware on a thumb drive, and copy the file to
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890 after booting), but I have been beaten
down trying to get genkernel to do the Right Thing for the PCMCIA subsystem.
This is 2004.3, emerge gentoo-dev-sources, on a Dell D800.
Thank you for your post, though: genkernel all is apparently too naive for
my situation.
The wireless card situation has all the appeal of a winmodem.
I grasp that the manufacturers have various legal/business reasons for the
‘firmware’ nonsense (what a goofy euphemism), and I understand Linus has a
Pontius Pilate policy about them, but I hope that the situation can evolve
to the point that using this hardware under Linux isn’t such a flogging for a
medium-weight geek like me.
Party!
Gentoo might not be the best distro in your case. Have you tried Redhat or Mandrake?