Ubuntu and Prism Wireless Card

I was able to lay hands on an old Prism wireless card and was trying to get it working on an Ubuntu laptop (Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx). The OS did not detect the wireless card which meant that I had to begin a 'query journey' via google.

The name printed on the wireless card is: Intersil Corporation, Prism Duette

And here is the relevant part from the output of the 'lspci -v' command:

04:00.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Intersil Corporation Device 0000

Initially I thought that the issue was due to 'prism54' kernel module and that I had to blacklist it to get the card working.

But then I came across this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware-nonfree/+bug/509265

which essentially said that I had to install the 'linux-firmware-nonfree' package.

 And YES, once I installed the package, the card was recognized by the OS and everything was fine.

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