On Monday 19 August 2002 05:33 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Ian Eure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Monday 19 August 2002 02:39 pm, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Hedderly) writes: > > > > No. the hostap dirver is excellent. Written by Jean Tour... > > > > something. He works for SSH Corp. google for "linux prism2 driver". > > > > It does pcmcia and pci brilliantly but doesnt support usb yet. works > > > > with prism2/2.5/3 cards - and most orinoco cards too. supports > > > > kysmet. > > > > > > Nope, you're confusing authors with the in-kernel orinoco driver, > > > which Jean Tourrilhes (who works for HP) has maintained at various > > > points, though the current "real" maintainer is David Gibson, IIRC. > > > > > > Apparently the 2.4.19 orinoco includes prism2/PCI (aka prism2.5, I > > > believe) support. Don't know about the prism3---is that 802.11a? > > > > Prism2 and Prism2.5 are not the same thing. > > My understanding, perhaps flawed, is that Prism2.5 is basically a > Prism2 with a direct PCI interface---no pcmcia baggage, etc. The > Linksys WPM11, for instance. > My only experience with Prism2.5 is with a newer Linksys WPC11 PCMCIA card, which didn't work with my stock 2.4.x non-kernel pcmcia setup.
> Regardless, the orinoco driver in the 2.4.19 kernel supports them. > From Configure.help: > > Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support > CONFIG_PCI_HERMES > Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on > the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b > PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also > common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of > this variety. > Doesn't this require kernel PCMCIA support? > > I haven't used the driver in the kernel, but the Orinoco driver > > shipped with pcmcia-source (pcmcia-cs 3.1.33) only supports Prism2 > > cards. > > > > I strongly recommend anyone with a Prism chipset use linux-wlan-ng, > > since pcmcia-cs's Orinoco driver sucks pretty hard. > > To each their own---I have used the orinoco driver that comes with the > kernel from day one with no particular problems---and it supports the > standard (at least in-kernel-standard) interfaces for configuration, > etc., whereas wlan-ng does its own thing. > Well, I've used the default Orinoco driver in pcmcia-cs, but the linux-wlan-ng driver just performs better for me. Also, the pcmcia-cs driver constantly complains about "Error -110 writing BAP" for me. -- Komm auf meine Sonnenbarke!