[Prism54-users] SuSE 9.0 Install

[Adam Rhodes]

Hi,

Thanks - I tried the package you specified without much luck (managed to 
break more than I fixed) - however I managed to install hotplug from 
scratch from the hotplug sourceforge site, and it appears to be working, 
and I have a firmware.agent in /etc/hotplug - however I'm still getting 
the same error.

If I compile the driver into the kernel as a module instead I get a 
rather more descriptive error, however it still appears to be the 
firmware loading that is causing the problems from what I can see. 
Here's the /var/log/messages output when I have it as a module:

Nov  2 20:15:43 linux kernel: PCI: Enabling device 03:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux cardmgr[744]: socket 0: CardBus hotplug device
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: Using 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: Symbol version prefix ''
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o: 
unresolved symbol release_firmware_R33934162
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o: 
unresolved symbol request_firmware_R38ce5074
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o: 
insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.o 
failed
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: Using 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54.o
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54.o: 
unresolved symbol release_firmware_R33934162
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54.o: 
unresolved symbol request_firmware_R38ce5074
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54.o: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54.o failed
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux insmod: 
/lib/modules/2.4.23-pre9/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54.o: insmod 
prism54 failed
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux /etc/hotplug/pci.agent[4834]: ... can't load 
module prism54
Nov  2 20:15:43 linux /etc/hotplug/pci.agent[4834]: missing kernel or 
user mode driver prism54
Nov  2 20:15:44 linux /etc/hotplug/pci.agent[4834]: writing pcmcia-0 to 
/var/run/hotplug/net


Any advice? I may end up ditching SuSE and trying to get this going on a 
different distro, wireless is vital to me :)

Thanks,
Adam Rhodes

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:

>  
>
>>I have also downloaded the firmware to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware and
>>have wireless-tools installed.
>>    
>>
>
>Look for your distributions hotplug scripts as well. Basically look for
>the package that has /sbin/hotplug. Some old versions of this do not have
>/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent, so look for the most recent one.
>
>If you can't find it, I've put debian's package here:
>http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/hotplug.tar.gz
>
>	Luis
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