I'm sure the prism54 driver won't work.  The card (which is in the
slot at the moment, so I can't check) is a ver 4 of the wg511.  When I
first plugged it in and the prism54 module was loaded, I tried my best
to get it to work.  I tried several different revisions of the
firmware (linked from prism54.org) and it was no go.  I'm pretty sure
I found a message somewhere from someone else who never got ver 4 of
the card to work either.  The lesson I've learned from trying six
different cards is that there are no prism chipset cards that work
anymore.  (which is why, I assume, the website hasn't seen much
activity since June of last year)

But that's fine, since the ndiswrapper works great.  I'd have to use
non-Free software either way.  The only thing I want is the
ndiswrapper module to be loaded on insert, instead of the prism54
module.


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:45:05 -0600, Andrew Zbikowski <andyzib at gmail.com> wrote:
> Unless I'm misreading the prism54.org page, the wg511 is a supported
> card. There is just a disclaimer about the soft MAC thing.
> 
> The trick with prism54 cards is that you have to setup hotplug to load
> the card's firmware onto the cards RAM. Don't know if it was a price
> point issue or what, but the memory in the prism54 cards only hold
> information while they have power. If you haven't tried this yet, you
> don't know for sure the issue you're running into is the SoftMAC
> issue.
> 
> I tossed up what I did to get my prism54 card working in the prism54.org forums.
> http://www.prism54.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=677
> 
> I would look at the configuration on my Linux box, but it went up in
> smoke so...I can't. :)
> 
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