Universal Install CD 2004.3 loads prism54 module. Attempts to set card parameters using net-setup eth0 results in... prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable Type "ifconfig" to make sure the interface was configured correctly. Other attempts to set the parameters manually with iwconfig also end up getting the firmware errors. The card in question is a PCMCIA SMC 2835W wireless network card. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot up. 2. Run net-setup. Actual Results: prism54: request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890' eth0: could not upload firmware ('isl3890') SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable Type "ifconfig" to make sure the interface was configured correctly. Expected Results: Expected result is the card configuring and connecting to my wireless network. Computer is a P366 64MB Compaq Armada 7800 that I'm sick of Windows 2000 dragging to a crawl.
Downloaded http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/1.0.4.3.arm from Windows and renamed to isl3890. Put in C:\ for easy location. Booted Gentoo and mounted NTFS partition by using "mkdir /mnt/win" and then "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win" followed by "cp /mnt/win/isl3890 /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890" and then went through the net-setup steps. (I also had to make several alterations directly by using iwconfig for setting things like channel. I hope there's a plan to better support wireless configurations in /etc/conf.d files as well as asking for channel information in net-setup when it's known to be a wireless connection. Networking now working flawlessly. I'd recommend Gentoo get together with Prism54.org on verifying whether or not the Intersil drivers are still under GPL or if they need to work with Conexant to get redistribution rights for the firmware.
We cannot provide the firmware to the prism54 driver due to licensing issues. You have to provide your own copy of the firmware, which you can download at http://prism54.org/firmware/ Because of this, we cannot possibly resolve this situation.
