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
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david@random ~ $ dmesg | grep p54 p54pci 0000:00:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 p54pci 0000:00:09.0: firmware: requesting isl3886pci phy0: p54 detected a LM86 firmware p54: rx_mtu reduced from 3240 to 2376 p54pci 0000:00:09.0: is registered as 'phy0' david@random ~ $ dmesg | grep phy0 phy0: p54 detected a LM86 firmware phy0: FW rev 2.13.12.0 - Softmac protocol 5.9 phy0: cryptographic accelerator WEP:YES, TKIP:YES, CCMP:YES phy0: hwaddr xx.xx.xx.xx, MAC:isl3890 RF:Duette3 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel' p54pci 0000:00:09.0: is registered as 'phy0' david@random ~ $ dmesg | grep wlan0 ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready wlan0: authenticate with xxxxxxxxx (try 1) wlan0: authenticated wlan0: associate with xxxxxxxxxxx (try 1) wlan0: RX AssocResp from xxxxxxxxxxxx (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) wlan0: associated ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
suggesting here a name change for the ebuild to p54-firmware this would follow the name change the kernel has made for support A link to the kernel webpage would be nice in the log say echo "see http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54 for supported devices"
Current recommended firmware for the pci version @http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54#firmware 2.13.22.0.arm provided by ebuild is 2.13.12.0.arm
further note the firmware currently installed by the ebuild works with more cards than the newer version. Also wireless.kernel.org has stepped back the default firmware version since I reported there.
setting summary to the version that needs to be stable and is working for me. Has been for months. My bad not reporting the version. Changelog does not mention keywording. 04 Mar 2010; Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> prism54-firmware-2.13.ebuild: move elog calls to preinst *prism54-firmware-2.13 (04 Mar 2010) 04 Mar 2010; Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@gentoo.org> +prism54-firmware-2.13.ebuild: add new firmware version, for Linux >=2.6.29, update SLOT, to allow installation side-by-side with deprecated (older) ebuild, reset KEYWORDS 17 Oct 2009; Thilo Bangert <bangert@gentoo.org> prism54-firmware-1.0.4.3.ebuild: fix SRC_URI (bug #241744) Note it says in the Changelog the kernel versions package is in tree since March please bump mark stable or at least keyword for testing on arch's This firmware adds support for a large set of cards not just mine and the stable version unless you have bumped it will not even work with a current gentoo-sources on a new install. think this one will later be in kernel anyway ...but for now.
add STABLEREQ to Keywords and assing to arches.
The actual version of prism54-firmware package does not work because ebuild tries to download a file not avaiable. To solve this you have to change the next: SRC_URI="http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-softmac/2.13.12.0.arm http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-usb/2.13.1.0.lm86.arm http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/fw-usb/2.13.24.0.lm87.arm http://daemonizer.de/prism54/prism54-fw/stlc4560/2.13.12.0.a.5.2.arm" And: src_install() { dodir /lib/firmware insinto /lib/firmware newins "${DISTDIR}"/2.13.12.0.a.5.2.arm 3826.arm newins "${DISTDIR}"/2.13.24.0.lm87.arm isl3887usb newins "${DISTDIR}"/2.13.1.0.lm86.arm isl3886usb newins "${DISTDIR}"/2.13.12.0.arm isl3886pci } It works for me.
Created attachment 279531 [details] adjusted elog output as suggested in comment#3 This ebuild worksforme as is without any changes.(and has for over a year) not sure what comment #8 is about unless the ebuild was already updated Granted I have the pci version and cannot test the usb stuff for a lack of hardware
This issue was adressed in bug 371015
