Older Computer and 8.04

[Jim Tarvid]

Used to be my favorite PCMCIA card because of the external antenna
connection.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/259157 is
related (and many others). My "Orinoco Gold" cards were model wd-8470 and
had an atheros chipset. They worked well with the madwifi drivers until they
were updated a few years ago. During that period, the "orinoco" drivers were
extended to include the WD-8470 and never worked as well as the older
madwifi.

Recently, I have been using TP-Link USB radios but the v2 of these devices
don't work either.  I pried the broadcom radio out of my laptop and
installed an Intel and have been more or less happy ever since. The little
Ubiquiti NanoStation Locos work well as does my older Buffalo with DD-WRT. I
have a couple of PicoStations on order.

My guess is that hal and dbus are working against you. If I were motivated
to get the WD-8470 working with Lucid (which I am not) I would look into
getting the madwifi drivers.

Jim

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:

> It seems 10.04 dropped support for some older hardware.
>
> My old ORINOCO Gold WiFi PC-Cards aren't working anymore. :(
>
> Gilles.
>
> On 08/05/2010 23:51, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >      I have a DVD/CD device, USB port devices and a older replacement of
> > the floppy disk space with a multi memory stick reader. These are not
> > working reliably on 10.04 and I have been testing to see why.
> >
> >      When I gave up and tried version 8.04 I was surprised that all
> > these devices are working fine on this version. Went back to 10.04 and
> > the same problems. It looks as if I might need a newer hardware for
> 10.04?
> >
> > 73 Karl
> >
> >
>
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