linux firmware wireless nic smc2802w

[dtra]

hi all

i am after a firmware download for the aformentioned wireless nic
and smc-australia have informed me that there is no such download from their site

so does anyone know of a third party firmware download (keeping in mind that this is the 54Mbps card, and that the part number is different from overseas versions)

or should i just go and get a different wireless nic, one that has proper support for linux?

i think it is similar to this http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...t=26825&page=1
but obviously with a different nic

thanks
dave

[baz2a]

hi there,


i have an smc2802w pci card and got it to work great in fc...have to get a firmware file from http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/PrismFirmwares.html and copy it to /lib/firmware (i believe...am not at my machine, at work as i'm typing this from memory). hit google for "linux prism54 firmware" as well.

[dtra]

thank you very much
i will try this as soon as i get home
i hope this works

dave

[dtra]

ok, well i downloaded the SMC driver from that page
i also downloaded the SMC driver from this page
http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/

and copied them both to /lib/firmware
but what do i do with them? they are both saved as .bin files

thanks
dave

[eof]

Have you got it to work with WPA-PSK (wpa_supplicant)? I am under the impression that you are supposed to use ndiswrapper for this, but can't find any final statement on this.

tia
Steffen