Orinoco v Hostap
Michael R. Head
burner at suppressingfire.org
Thu Jun 8 21:08:40 UTC 2006
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.
> --
> Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester,
> IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL.
> T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039
> E: tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk, H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold
>
>
--
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
More information about the ubuntu-users
mailing list