On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:24 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 02:02 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> My classic Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card has not been working > >> under Fedora/KDE (with WEP) for some time. > >> Does anyone have this card working under Fedora? > >> It works perfectly under Windows XP. > >> > >> I see in /var/log/messages that > >> the firmware agere_sta_fw.bin cannot be found; > >> but if this file is in fact required > >> I don't understand why it is not provided with the orinoco_cs module? > > > > Originally it wasn't provided with the module because the license that > > the firmware was released under only allowed you (as the user) to get it > > directly from Agere or on the CD that came with your card. Your Linux > > distribution could not legally repackage it and give it to you. > > > > I think that was fixed though, and there is now a legally downloadable > > firmware available here: > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=tree > > > > (click the "blob" link next to agere_sta_fw.bin and put that file > > into /lib/firmware) > > > >> Rather frighteningly, I read this remark from Dan Williams, > >> who seems to be one of the two orinoco_cs developers: > >> "Since the WE-18 support in orinoco is so new, > >> I'm not really surprised that > >> it could be failing for WEP or open networks." > > > > That was long ago; orinoco is probably better now, but I haven't tested > > it in a while. It's worth a shot. Of course, you wont' be able to > > connect to 802.11g speeds since no orinoco cards can handle that, but at > > least you may get something. If not, we can debug it. > > Slightly off topic, but not entirely -- does anyone know if this > combination supports Master mode? I'm currently running one machine back > at kernel 2.4, which is difficult to do for other reasons, because > hermesap does not work in 2.6.
Better topic for linux-wireless I think. I don't know offhand. hostapd in combination with the actual hostap drivers might get you there. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
