[ale] Fedora 12 and prism54 wireless card

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 22:13 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:40 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
>>> So I reloaded an old laptop with Fedora 12.  I know F13 is out there, 
>>> but I need F12.  Anyway, I've got a pcmcia wireless card that is based 
>>> on the prism54 chipset which worked just fine under Mandriva.  Plugged 
>>> it in and configured it.
>>>
>>> Fedora apparently does not have the prism54 driver.  Can't seem to 
>>> locate a variant either.  Suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>
>> Try the Prism54 project, that is how you did it in the "old" days three
>> years past to about a year ago.  http://lekernel.net/prism54/
> 
> It seems the best thing to do is get a newer kernel, reading the pages
> above, they say all prism54 should work with a current kernel.

Yeah, but those pages are ancient.  I would think any of the current 
kernels should work.  After all, I had this working on Red Hat EL in 
2003 when I first purchased the card.


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