laptop almost perfect

[sime]

> Somebody once pointed me at the hostap drivers, i didn't have
> any luck with them with my orinoco card, but I think there was an 
> option to build prism modules.

That's because an Orinoco card is not really a prism card.

> the package name is hostap-source
> not sure if that is what you are looking for though...

If its Prism2/2.5/3 it is what you are looking for (google says so). 
AFAIK wlan-ng development stopped a while ago, hostap is actively 
maintained.

-sime