configuring wireless connection - beginner

[Jay Strauss]

>>eth0: Force scheduling reset!
>>orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=d7996800)
> 
> 
> Well, that's enough to tell that this is indeed not Host AP driver. As
> far as I know, the current Orinoco driver does not support WPA and as
> such, it is not very useful with wpa_supplicant. If you want to use
> wpa_supplicant and your card is based on Prism2/2.5/3, I would recommend
> testing Host AP driver instead.

Ok, but it was a long time ago, to I just:

  echo hostap >> /etc/modules

I can't find where orinoco is loaded during boot.  There is no listing 
of it in my /etc/modules.  How do I prevent a conflict?

Thanks
Jay