Mandriva 2006 atmel usb wifi adaptor
 

Greetings all,

I purchased a 'Spirit' 802.11b wireless USB adaptor that has an Atmel chipset that wouldn't work out of the box with Mandriva.

It produced an ID from /proc/bus/usb/devices Vendor=03eb ProdID=7613.

dmesg produced an output relating to firmware drivers that failed and indicated going to http://thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/ to download the firmware.

I downloaded the firmware atmel-firmware-1.3-1fc3.noarch.rpm and still no luck.

I discovered that rpm -qpl atmel-firmware-1.3-1fc3.noarch.rpm sent the firmware files to /lib/firmware/ , so I then simply copied the files all over to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/

This fixed the recognition problem of the USB wifi adaptor and then armed with http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/atmel_92.html I am happily wireless with the product.

Cheers
HoOLi

Congrats!

Maybe you could submit this to the LQ HCL. Having successful install instructions there is a good thing.