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. 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. -- Komm auf meine Sonnenbarke!