Wi-fi: SMC2532W-B (prism3) Support
Patrick Bowen
pbowen at fastmail.fm
Wed Jul 27 13:08:50 GMT 2005
Sam Pierson wrote:
>Tried 5.3, 6.0-current twice in June and now 6.0-BETA1, and my SMC2532W-B
>card is still unrecognized. A friend bought the card as well and was
>able to make
>it run under gentoo and it was recognized as a prism3 chipset. I've
>compiled all
>the intersil and prism related drivers into my kernel and tried
>compiling support
>under the NDIS driver but it still refuses to make it available under
>ifconfig. Has
>anyone figured out a way to make this work (or can point me to where support
>for general prism3 chipset cards would be)
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Sam;
I've been using a SMC2532W-B for the last year and a half. I got it to
work by simply adding the following to /etc/defaults/pccard.conf, right
after the entry for the SMC2632;
# SMC's SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter
card "SMC" "SMC2532W-B EliteConnect Wireless Adapter"
config auto "wi" ?
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
Add the above and reboot. The card should now be recognized.
As you can see, this addition is just copying the entry for the 2632. I
just guessed it might work, and so far it has. If you have any problems,
give me a yell.
Patrick Bowen
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