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WiFi not working (wusb54g on 10.04 amd64)

Asked by Jeff Joker

Hello,

I just upgraded fro, 9.10 to 10.04 beta (amd 64) and my usb wifi dongle does not work anymore, below is my dmesg

usb 1-4: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-4: firmware: requesting isl3887usb
usb 1-4: (p54usb) cannot load firmware isl3887usb (-2)!
usb 1-4: firmware: requesting isl3887usb_bare
p54usb: probe of 1-4:1.0 failed with error -2
usbcore: registered new interface driver p54usb

Thanks in advance, Jeff

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/backtrack-bugs/424-bt4-final-cannot-find-firmware-isl3887usb.html

You need a firmware file in /lib/firmware to make the device work

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Jeff Joker (jeffjoker) said : 		#2

Hello,

Thanks for your answer I had already guessed that but I have a hard time finding this isl3887usb_bare and this used to work out of the box, I still think this should be patched !

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Jeff Joker (jeffjoker) said : 		#3

I found a detailed answer here :

http://wiki.debian.org/prism54#p54usb

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