[Prism54-users] newbie questions

[Feyd]

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 00:41:10 +0200
Mathias Peters <empy@gmx.net> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to install a netgear wg511 on a debian sid with 2.6.4 kernel. 
> I patched the kernel, recompiled it, installed  hotplug, wireless-tools 
> and pcmcia-cs.
> Dmesg showed me, that for eth1 the prism54 driver was found and lspci -v 
> also found the device. But no lights at the device are on and iwconfig 
> says "NOT READY" when typing iwconfig eth1.
> Can anyone help me?
> Is this the right place to pose questions like this?
> thanks to anyone answering

You have to install firmware, its in the README.

Feyd