Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:19844 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758737AbZJHQaH (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:30:07 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 22so34179fge.1 for ; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4ACE131E.3080908@lwfinger.net> Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:28:14 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Grossmann CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Prism54/p54pci References: <167ae39b0910071400n218d3d9ey7711b1011f290a73@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <167ae39b0910071400n218d3d9ey7711b1011f290a73@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/07/2009 04:00 PM, James Grossmann wrote: > I have the gigafast WF728-AEX, which doesn't seem to work with the > p54pci drivers, I was previously using it with my Thinkpad T23 under > Gentoo (gentoo kernels 2.6.29 and 2.6.30), and could only use the > 1.0.4.3 firmware, now, I am using it under Ubuntu 9.04 > (2.6.28-15-generic kernel) on the same computer, and find that I have > to load the prism54 driver to make it work. > I noticed that you were considering this to be depricated, I hope that > you can help me to make p54pci work! As it works with 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 kernels, but not with 2.6.28, it seems likely that you need a later version of the driver. Does Ubuntu have a package for compat-wireless? If so, install it. If not, you will need to install from source. Larry