Truemobile 1150 scanning support

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Wed Jun 15 06:47:48 UTC 2005


Todd,

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:43 -0400, Todd Deshane wrote:
> I couldn't get the hostap to compile, but downloading
> the cvs drivers worked finally! 

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

> for anybody that needs help installing, i just followed the
> README that came with the orinoco from the cvs link
> http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=orinoco
> 
> export CVS_RSH="ssh"
> 
> cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs at savannah.nongnu.org:/cvsroot/orinoco co orinoco
> cd orinoco
> make
> make install
> 
> #(unload the orinoco module(s)... I had to reboot without the card in)
> rmmod <modulname>

Could be tricky as teh card is installed internally in the laptop. I
guess putting the module name in the hotplug black list should have the
same effect?

> # load the module
> insmod /path/to/orinoco.ko
> 
> # scanning now works!
> iwlist eth1 scanning 

This is what I'm looking for! Given this, wifi-radar should also work.

Regards,
Tony.
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