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p54
p54 is a driver for Intersil's Prism54 chips series. It supports both older full-MAC devices (with new soft-MAC firmware) and newer soft-MAC devices. It is included in the Linux kernel.
Contents
caveats
Before you can use the hardware, you have to get the the right firmware.
supported chips
- ISL3877, ISL3880, ISL3890 and ISL3886 (miniPCI)
ISL3886 + net2280 (USB, 1st generation with net2280 usb<->pci bridge)
- ISL3887 (USB, 2nd generation, native USB interface)
( STMicroelectronics' STLC4560 (SPI) - available in wireless-testing )
available devices
For a complete listing of supported products, see the device list.
firmware
There are several different firmwares for different hardware. so you have to pick the right one, download, rename to the listed name and put it into the right place... Normally this should be /lib/firmware. However some distributions put firmware in a different place.
please pick the right one for your device from the lists:
for 2.6.29 kernels and above:
for 2.6.28 kernels and older:
card type
required filename
older than 2.6.28
specially for 2.6.28
miniPCI / PCMCIA
isl3886
USB 1st generation (ISL3886 + net2280)
isl3890usb
USB 2nd generation (ISL3887)
isl3887usb_bare
Note: These firmwares are kept for backward compatibility reasons only!
Alternatively, firmware can be extracted from windows drivers with a tool called "fwextract3" available from http://lekernel.net/prism54/misc.html.
working
- Ad-Hoc, AP, Mesh, Monitor and Station Mode
- WMM/WME/802.11e (QoS)
- TPC and ERP
- Cryptographic accelerator for WEP, TKIP and CCMP
- Packet Injection in Monitor Mode
- power save management in station mode
- Supported band table (by radio chip):
ID
Chip name
802.11 b/g
802.11 a
1
Duette3
?
?
2
Duette2
?
?
3
Frisbee
yes
no
4
Crossbow
yes
yes
5
Longbow
yes
?
not working yet
- regulatory domain codes
- LED class driver
- Firmware scanning
- DFS / Radar Detection
- NITRO (Burst, Compression, Aggregation)
- LowerMAC Terminal
Enabling p54
To enable p54, you must first enable mac80211:
Networking ---> Wireless ---> <M> Improved wireless configuration API <M> Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)
You can then enable p54 in the kernel configuration under
Device Drivers ---> [*] Network device support ---> Wireless LAN ---> [*] Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11) <M> Softmac Prism54 support <M> Prism54 USB support <M> Prism54 PCI support
Contact
IRC: #prism54 on freenode (#p54u is about a different driver for BSD)
no special mailing list, use the linux wireless list for development issues