Orinoco v Hostap

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 15:01 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:

> A suggestion, I though I had seen was to use the Hostap drivers instead.
> So can anyone confirm this? Will Hostap support this card and will
> Network Manager work with it?

Also, you'll want to toss out your /etc/iftab entry because hostap
creates a number of devices (wlan0 wlan0ap wifi0) that all have the same
mac address, which confuses udev (or whatever handles interface renaming
these days).

mike

> If so, can anyone point me to a simple howto that explains how to kick
> out orinoco and install the Hostap stuff?
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.
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