Bugzilla Bug 172863

I've been looking for orinoco drivers with working monitoring support with the
latest 8.72 firmware release.

Granite, the kernel drivers work, but they lack monitoring support.  And most
people with wireless cards most times want to use something like Kismet for
either finding a public free access point within their area, or like me,
curious what the wireless activity is like near their own AP (aka. Suspicious
activity as in my current case :-/ )

After much searching this is the best research I've seen to date about this
issue:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-264219-highlight-pcmciacs.html

Grab working orinoco drivers with working monitor support from here:
http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html

After a little working, I'm easily using orinoco-0.13e-SN-15 with
sys-kernel/suspend2-sources-2.6.18-r3.  I'm also using the latest Lucent/Agere
8.72 firmware release.

I'm even noticing the portage orinoco ebuild is still trying to pull from a
deprecated source.  Probably should be wiped from portage.  This "0.13e-SN-15"
fork should be integrated with a Summary:

"Orinoco drivers with working monitor support for kismet and using the latest
8.72 firmware."


Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
I'd easily make an ebuild, but would it see the light of day? :-)

I've read through the other orinoco bug reports.  They seem to be rambling much
about orinoco usb support and still pulling from the svn branch that does not
include a working orinoco version with the latest 8.72 firmware release.

(I've also researched this is because of a "coding mess" to get monitoring
support working with later firmware version."

net-wireless/orinoco should be p.masked and removed unless someone's actually
going to maintain it, instead of introducing some third-party forks into the
tree... It's completely broken and useless as it is. The current version
doesn't compile with any current kernel (Bug 127300) and the 9999 ebuild uses
nonexistant CVS.

Roger. if you want monitoring support, then get this fixed upstream (see
http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?103521) if they ever become alive again or
push this into kernel.

Oh, and http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html just produces a
nifty timeout, that's about it.

Argh... Maybe it's just me, but the whole http://savannah.nongnu.org/ site just
seems confusing.  :-/

Interesting note about only "some nifty" timing issues coded (hacked) into the
source.

Having only one Orinoco for my laptop, again, I agree, stumbling onto the
Portage  orinoco drivers were probably useless as well.

For the time being, I'm sticking with the plasma drivers as they still seem to
be working just fine with the 8.72 firmware.   If I break a leg and/or get laid
up for awhile, I'll drag myself to commit a webpage about using the "plasma"
drivers.

(All time I get for coding/hacking, I'm spending monitoring the LinuxBios
project for 440BX support.)

Created an attachment (id=118539) [edit]
Working orinoco/prism2 driver ebuild

Ebuild created for driver from:
http://www.projectiwear.org/~plasmahh/orinoco.html 
I currently use it on suspend2-sources-2.6.19-r3.
Enjoy!

thank you I added that and included a 2.6.21 patch!

I'm guessing, this is a genkernel patch, which is then migrated into suspend2
kernel as well?

If so, I'll migrate to suspend2-2.6.21 for testing.

It is an ebuild net-wireless/orinoco-sn, that includes a patch to work with the
2.6.21 kernel. It would be nice if you could test it with suspend-sources
2.6.21 but that version is said to have problems with the filewriter..