laptop almost perfect

[Eric S. Johansson]

sime wrote:
> 
>> 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.

curious.  It looks like it's mostly used to turn a Linux machine into an 
access point.  I think I'm probably better off buying just some cheap 
ass modern card and using ndiswrappers.

I am burning more time on these cards than they are worth.

---eric