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 attachment 118539 [details] 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..
