Hi everyone, Like many of you, I'm eager to get my Lucent/Agere/Orinoco Silver/Gold PCMCIA card working with WPA on my wife's old IBM X24. Kubuntu had made a great impression on her, but I'm not (yet) willing to turn off or turn down the encryption level of my wireless router. There are many others that are having problems with these cards as well:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7233791 I am still having many problems with my Orinoco Silver/Gold, fw 8.72. I've downloaded Alex's "agere_sta_fw.bin" (65046 bytes) into /lib/firmware and have checked with dmesg that it has been loaded - I get the spam about roaming. However I am still unable to get onto a WPA enabled router with this card. Wicd gets stuck on validating. Years ago, I remembered that the orinoco_cs driver was unable to support WPA, and the solution was to use hostap_cs. To force the computer to use hostap instead of orinoco_cs, you would edit /etc/pcmcia/config, find your particular card, and edit the line to say something like "bind (hostap_cs)" instead of "bind (orinoco_cs)". However, pcmcia-cs is now old-fashioned and has been replaced by pcmciautils. I have not found any files related to pcmciautils that I can edit. Blacklisting all the orinoco, hermes modules while loading hostap_cs with modprobe has not worked. The driver still does not bind to the card. My question for those that are subscribed on the list: 1. Have you been able to get the orinoco_cs driver to work once you've placed agere_sta_fw.bin into /lib/firmware. If so, any tips/tricks? 2. Does anyone know how or have tried to force the PCMCIA card to bind to hostap_cs driver? Many thanks to all. If I do find a solution, I'll be sure to post it to this forum and ubuntuforums.org -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
