Thanks Giles
I downloaded the firmware and it's working properly. Thanks for the answer and the solution.
Cheers
David
----- Original Message ----- From: Giles Coochey To: centos@centos.org Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 7:37 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Wireless problem
On 15/10/2010 06:06, David wrote: Hi folks
I just installed Centos 5.5. I heard about the new changes in wifi support. I tried a USB wifi card from Netgear, and It works fine. It didn't en Centos 5.4, so that's great news.
The problem is I have a Linksys WUSB54GC USB wifi card and I want to make it work.
I get this messages in /var/log/messages as soon as I plug it in.
Oct 14 22:56:20 lila kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 Oct 14 22:56:21 lila kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Oct 14 22:56:22 lila kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Oct 14 22:56:22 lila kernel: Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::radio Oct 14 22:56:22 lila kernel: Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::assoc Oct 14 22:56:22 lila kernel: Registered led device: rt73usb-phy1::quali Oct 14 22:56:22 lila kernel: usbcore: registered new driver rt73usb Oct 14 22:56:23 lila firmware_helper[2605]: Loading of /lib/firmware/rt73.bin for rt73usb driver failed: No such file or directory Oct 14 22:56:23 lila kernel: phy1 -> rt2x00lib_request_firmware: Error - Failed to request Firmware.
I googled it but nothing re
Hi,
Didn't google enough... please try installing the firmware available from Elrepo for this card:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/rt73usb-firmware
Once done, if it still doesn't work provide a directory listing of /lib/firmware and any other error messages you get.