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Bug 328329

Summary: prism54-firmware needs version bump installs wrong firmware for recent kernels
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: David J Cozatt <djcozatt>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54
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Description David J Cozatt 2010-07-15 00:36:46 UTC
Prism54 is deprecated and the driver is in the kernel as p54. The firmware version that the current stable ebuild in portage installs will not working with any recent kernels. 

I keyworded it and it installed and worked 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"

Was running stable and it installed the wrong firmware O-O firmware version installed for stable is for kernel 2.6.28 or less. 

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Expected to install firmware that would work with a current kernel
Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-07-15 00:43:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 328327 ***