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[Bug 524713] Re: isl3886pci firmware not found after upgrade moved it to subdir

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From: Janet <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 23:24:37 -0000
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Please also fix the the description of the package linux-firmware-
nonfree. It says it contains DVB drivers so I explicitly excluded it
from my search for the missing prism54 firmware because DVB has nothing
to do with WLAN.

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isl3886pci firmware not found after upgrade moved it to subdir
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Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “linux-firmware-nonfree” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: linux-firmware

When I upgraded from Karmic to Lucid 10.04 (linux-firmware version 1.29), the isl3886pci firmware is no longer found and loaded, causing my wireless card to not work.

This file was previously located in /lib/firmware directly.  It is now located in /lib/firmware/prism54_softmac/isl3886pci.  Creating a symbolic link from the new location back to /lib/firmware/isl3886pci corrects the problem for me.  Although that's the simplest fix, it may make better sense to fix it in the kernel or the firmware helper in the udev package.