prism card, hostap, and wpasupplicant

Michael R Head burner at suppressingfire.org
Mon Aug 15 16:54:49 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 02:41 -0500, Jay Strauss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been googling all day.  I have a prism2 card in my IBM thinkpad
> A30.  In the past when I ran debian sarge, I was able to use my card
> because there was hostap modules.

Ubuntu's hotplug system should be loading the orinoco_pci driver and
calling it eth0 or eth1 (well, it does for my similar-era T30 with
built-in wireless, anyway). 

If you really want the hostap drivers, you can do this:

0) get your kernel version. 'cat /proc/version' can tell you. Mine is
2.6.10-5-k7
0.1) add yourself to the 'src' group and log out/log in


$ sudo apt-get install hostap-source  kernel-headers-2.6.10-5-k7 fakeroot
$ cd /usr/src
$ tar jxvf hostap-source.tar.bz2
$ cd modules/hostap-source
$ fakeroot debian/rules KSRC=/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-k7/build binary-modules
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i hostap-modules-2.6.10-5-k7_0.2.6-1_i386.deb

(naturally, you'll have to replace '2.6.10-5-k7' with whatever kernel version you are using).

If orinoco_pci is actually being loaded, you'll need to tell hotplug not
to load it by adding  'orinoco_pci' to the /etc/hotplug/blacklist file.

hope this helps,
mike

> I seem unable to find a .deb for hostap on (k)ubuntu.
> 
> Do these not exist?
> 
> Thanks
> Jay

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