AW: Change orinoco driver to hostap with kernel 2.6.6

Juan Carlos Martin Severiano x01_jcm
Mon Jun 14 10:10:28 PDT 2004


I forgot to say in my post that the DELL truemobile 1150 card is
PRISM-based, so hostap should support it.

Regards

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Daniel Walther wrote:

> Hi Juan Carlos Mart?n
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> As I know, HostAP doesn?t support Orinoco cards. You should have a
> PRISM-based card.
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> Regards
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> Daniel
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> Von: hostap-bounces+d.walther=wireless-bern.ch at shmoo.com
> [mailto:hostap-bounces+d.walther=wireless-bern.ch at shmoo.com] Im Auftrag von
> Juan Carlos Martin Severiano
> Gesendet: Montag, 14. Juni 2004 18:48
> An: hostap at shmoo.com
> Betreff: Change orinoco driver to hostap with kernel 2.6.6
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> Hi,
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> I have tried to install HostAP 0.1.3 in my laptop (Fedora core 1, kernel
> 2.6.6 running, wireless card DELL truemobile 1150), and I followed the
> instructions contained in the README file:
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> make
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> make install
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> (no error messages displayed)
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> but when I restart cardmgr (doing /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart) I get again
> the orinoco driver (that comes by default with the kernel)  instead of
> hostap (looking at the modules loaded, with lsmod)
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> How do I get rid of the default orinoco driver, in order to be able to use
> hostap instead?
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> Maybe the problem is that I have followed the instructions for "Systems
> using kernel tree PCMCIA modules" instead of "System using external
> pcmcia-cs modules". Honestly I don't know which of both suits my system, but
> the first one compiled without problems.
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> Thanks,
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> Juan Carlos Mart?n
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