Why orinoco driver for pcmcia card with prism 2.5 chip?

[Senectus .]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:57:54 +0000 (GMT), Paul Sladen
<sounder at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Senectus . wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 11:53:22 -0500, Ciaran m <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> > > Good question. HAVE YOU GOT IT WORKING NOW?
> > My thinkpad has the prism.25 as well and it load the orinoco/hermes
> > drivers for it as well...
> 
> Same situation here.  Thinkpad R31, 802.11b/Modem Combo card.
> 
> In Debian (2.4) and early Warty (2.6):
> 
>  'orinoco_pci' survives for a very short amount of time and then crashes.
>                (timeout -110 stuff)
> 
>  'hostap_pci'  drivers work great.  (2.4, didn't get them built in Warty)
> 
> In Hoary (2.6) 'orinoco_pci' doesn't work at all and 'hostap' was a PITA to
> build and didn't work.
> 
> I don't think my mumblings about getting Hostap into the default kernel
> haven't been loud-enough...
> 
> I'm embarassed to say I haven't had more time to track it down, but I've
> basically had to restrict working in Ubuntu to when I have an ethernet cable
> handy!  :-(
> 
Thanks very much for the reply.. I'm gladdened to know that I'm not
alone in this..
I maybe trying an upgrade today to yesterdays daily build of hoary..
I'll let you know how it pans out.


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