Older Computer and 8.04

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi!

Well, yes, the external plug, with car roof-mounted antena for war
driving (which in those days yielded useful results)... :)

I didn't try madwifi. I tried ndiswrappers but they don't work with the
ORINOCO (they do work on another machine, my EeePC 900).

So I'm sort of stuck for now...

Gilles.

On 09/05/2010 11:30, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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