I had this problem (or a similar one) in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10. It ended up being two problems, and I will detail my solution below.
1. You do need to download the correct firmware, which I downloaded from http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=121078835610877&q=p3 in tar format, extracted, and renamed appropriately. It is now attached to this post. After putting this file in /lib/firmware/ (and making sure the permissions were 644, and owned by root.root), I restarted and sure enough dmesg did pick up the new firmware and told me it was WPA enabled. To test this, do a 'dmesg | grep WPA', and you should see a response such as "eth1: WPA-PSK supported". 2. My card in particular was still giving me problems, as I could not connect to my home network (which was in WPA mode). Specifically, I was getting the error "Lucent/Agere firmware doesn't support manual roaming". On a whim, I changed the WPA encryption from AES to TKIP, and now I am able to connect without an issue! I want to give a special thanks to Dave Kilroyd (I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly), who did all the work on the firmware for the orinoco wireless card. ** Attachment added: "agere_sta_fw.bin" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37911146/agere_sta_fw.bin -- Kernel oops loading Agere firmware (orinoco module) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/315489 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
