John on S8

[John]

>>The card will be a Netcomm 11g. The prism54 driver supports it (I have 
>>one already running in fc 2.90). It won't work out of the box unless you 
>>have a utility to find the firmware and put it in the right place, right 
>>name. This is the card:
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>If the firmware is legal for us to redistribute, we can include it so that
>it can Just Work, as we do with the Atmel and Intel firmware.  Where can it
>be found?
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I think you need a licence; otoh it's pretty easy to pick up a copy 
anonymously.

The firmware is Intersil's. I got my most recent semi-legit copy by 
downloading the Windows drivers from Netcomm's website, 
www.netcomm.com.au. It's also on my CD, and since I've now bought a card 
my semilegit cop is probably legit now.

Probably, you can also get it from smc's website (look for Windows 
drivers for the smc2802w version 1).

The prism54.org folk have been promised a licence by Intersil, but it's 
a long time coming (and in the meantime are distributing it off the 
website, in the leader's private area). It might help if you take it up 
with Intersil jointly with Ian Murdock, Bruce Perens, the prism54 people 
and anyone else you can find with an interest.

_Most_  people will have the driver, it will be on their driver CD, 
possibly in a windows executable archive or zip file. A tool to scan CDs 
looking for .arm (the firmware itself) and files likely to contain it.

Here's the CD contents:
ummer at Kookaburra:~$ find /misc/cd -type f      
/misc/cd/CheckDLL.dll
/misc/cd/Drivers/CheckDLL.dll
/misc/cd/Drivers/PRISMIOC.VXD
/misc/cd/Drivers/WL54GT.ARM
/misc/cd/Drivers/WL54GT.SYS
/misc/cd/Drivers/WL54GT5.SYS
/misc/cd/Drivers/WL54gt.INF
/misc/cd/Drivers/WLSetup.exe
/misc/cd/Manuals/Acrobat/Acrobat Reader Config & Trouble Shooting.pdf
/misc/cd/Manuals/NP5420/YML678Rev1-NP5420.pdf
/misc/cd/PRISMIOC.VXD
/misc/cd/Software/Acrobat/Acrobat Reader 5.00 English.exe
/misc/cd/WL54GT.ARM
/misc/cd/WL54GT.SYS
/misc/cd/WL54GT5.SYS
/misc/cd/WL54gt.INF
/misc/cd/WLSetup.exe
summer at Kookaburra:~$

I guess someone else sels it as a wl54gt. Pretty handy, if the change 
the chipset the gt should change (it's part of the chipset's name).