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. 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. > 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. Mike.