On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 09:20, eric tanguy wrote: > In a week i will obtain a usb wifi dongle based on Prism GT (ISL3890). Is > this hardware supported by kernel modules or do i have to install extra > modules ?? Eric, The Prism chipset is supported by the linux-wlan-ng project (http://www.linux-wlan.org). There is an RPM based on linux-wlan-ng 1.21-pre14 available for Fedore Core 1 at http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/v21-fc1-index.html. If you are running Fedora Core 2, you will need to build from source. You can get the latest source from ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/. I would recommend going with linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20 in order to get relatively reliable support for the 2.6 kernel. Once you've downloaded the source, if you follow the instructions in the howto at http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/wmp11-linux.htm you should be good to go. There is one caveat however. When you run 'make config' when building linux-wlan-ng, it tests to ensure that you have the linux kernel source (and not just the headers) installed. It does this by checking for version.h in the linux source directory that was specified earlier in the configuration process (it defaults to /usr/src/linux). Unfortunately, this file is only generated when module versioning is enabled (it is disabled by default, as it still flagged as 'experimental'), so before you can build linux-wlan-ng, you must first enable module versioning in the module. This is the process that I followed to get my WMP11 working under Linux, and I haven't had any problems yet. Ian
