Comment 27 for bug 106987

I am not sure if I should open a new report, but the here reported issue is still present in intrepid. On a fresh installation of Intrepid the following wifi-stick:

Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0846:4210 NetGear, Inc. WG121 WiFi (v2)

results to the following error in dmesg:

[ 22.528195] prism54usb: eeprom read failed!
[ 22.528219] prism54usb: probe of 5-7:1.0 failed with error -22

Regarding the information I have found here:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54

I could assume it was a firmware issue. Running:

sudo wget -O /lib/firmware/isl3890usb "http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/data/firmwares/p54u_2.5.6.0.arm"

fixed the problem.

I have also checked that Jaunty alpha4 still includes the same firmware as Intrepid, thus I expect that the problem is still there, also in jaunty.