I have a hard time understanding why this bug is still "New/Undecided" more
than a year after it was reported, and with a working solution supplied by the
reporter. I was bitten by the same bug today when I inserted a SOHOware ND5120
NE2K pcmcia card only to be greeted with
error loading '/lib/firmware/NE2K.cis' for deice '/class/firmware/0.0'
with driver '(unknown)'
Thanks to Daniel Brownless, I installed the deprecated pcmcia-cs package and
copied /etc/pcmcia/cis/NE2K.dat to /lib/firmware/NE2K.cis then purged
pcmcia-cs, and voila, the card works with pcmciautils.
I suggest that the pcmciautils maintainer simply copy the contents of
pcmcia-cs /etc/pcmcia/cis/ to /lib/firmware/ (changing the file
extensions from *.dat to *.cis) and include it in the pcmciautils
package. Maybe that's a hack, but it's certainly better than the current
situation where some cards fail to work, that has persisted for over a
year.
I'm changing the status of this bug to "Confirmed" to hopefully get some
attention.
** Changed in: pcmciautils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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pcmciautils should include driver firmware from pcmcia-cs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/75423
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