i have a compaq wl200 wireless nic which is supported by the ORiNOCO USB drives please add support for this driver to gentoo url : http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 21332 [details] ebuild for orinoco-usb
Attached an ebuild that should do the trick. A couple of things to note about it though. 1) The driver, when loaded, creates a wlanX network device. This is not compatible with linux-wlan-ng tools or drivers, but the wireless-tools drivers 2) Not sure how we want to handle configuring the interface before we attempt to bring it up (like pcmcia wireless cards). Currently ebuild doesn't take that into account.
I thought the orinoco-usb project was adopted by the orinoco project, which in term was adopted by some more general purpose wireless project... (linux-wlan[-ng] possibly?) Either way, it really annoys me that I can't use my Orinoco USB Client during a Gentoo-install. (See: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=145923)
We could add a CVS snapshot to net-wireless/orinoco, I suppose...
Well, if it would make it possible for the LiveCD to recognise (and correctly modprobe) the device, it would be most lovely! =) However, the most recent orinoco_usb source[1] seems to actually support my device: """ #define USB_LUCENT_VENDOR_ID 0x047E /* Lucent Technologies */ #define USB_LUCENT_ORINOCO_ID 0x0300 /* Lucent/Agere Orinoco USB Client */ """ From what I can tell from the CVS log, it's been there a while. Right from the earliest check-in.[2] So, yes, in short: Having net-wireless/orinoco added would be greatly appreciated! :) [1]http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/orinoco/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c?rev=1.92&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup [2]http://savannah.nongnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/orinoco/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
*** Bug 70695 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
What is the status of this for the first 2005.x LiveCD?
The distribution of the orinoco usb driver has been taken over by
The distribution of the orinoco usb driver has been taken over by Øystein Olsen at http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/ It would be good to create an ebuild that uses that src.rpm so that we get the integrated firmware benefit, plus an "upstream" release process that's a little better than cvs snapshots.
Actually, having looked at this a little more, I think that what needs to happen is that (1) the orinoco driver in portage needs to be updated to a recent CVS snapshot (instead of the "official" aka "dead" releases), (2) it needs to install the usb driver (and supporting kernel mods) along with the stuff it already installs.
Feel free
I have created a live CVS ebuild for net-wireless/orinoco along with a snapshot of the orinoco-usb-firmware. I would appreciate some testing as I do not have access to orinoco/prism based USB adapters myself. If this works for you, I will add it to portage.
Created attachment 61209 [details] orinoco-cvs-0.15_rc2.ebuild The net-wireless/orinoco-cvs ebuild.
Created attachment 61210 [details] orinoco-usb-firmware-0.1.ebuild The net-wireless/orinoco-usb-firmware ebuild.
Ok, I have added these ebuilds to portage. Thank you to Halcyon in #gentoo-laptop for testing.
Opening to assign to release@
Waiting for this stuff to hit stable for inclusion in our releases. Reassigning to release@ until that is done.
Mobile: Has the orinoco_usb driver been included in the kernel proper? I'm trying to determine what I need to do to fulfill this request for 2006.0's release.
(In reply to comment #17) > Mobile: Has the orinoco_usb driver been included in the kernel proper? I'm > trying to determine what I need to do to fulfill this request for 2006.0's release. Unfortunately, no. The non-USB orinoco drivers has been bumped to version 0.15rc3 in linux-2.6.15-rc1, but the USB orinoco driver is still not included. You could try net-wireless/orinoco-cvs, but given its live CVS HEAD nature I'm not sure that's a good idea...
Kernel team: Is there a chance of possibly getting the USB orinoco driver patched into gentoo-sources?
I'd rather not. It should be possible to make it an external package in portage.
Mobile: Is it feasible to split out the USB portion of the driver into an external module? If not, I'm just going to have to let this one sit until it gets merged into the kernel proper.
(In reply to comment #21) > Mobile: Is it feasible to split out the USB portion of the driver into an > external module? If not, I'm just going to have to let this one sit until it > gets merged into the kernel proper. I'd rather not. There must be a reason why the orinoco_usb driver is only available in CVS and isn't included in the snapshots yet.
FYI: I've re-organized the external orinoco ebuilds a bit to make it easier to maintain: net-wireless/orinoco-0.15*: official snapshots from upstream (as of this writing still no prism_usb support in these. Pavel Roskin mentioned in an email that we will hopefully have a snapshot with USB support within this year) net-wireless/orinoco-9999: live CVS HEAD ebuild. This includes prism_usb support. net-wireless/orinoco-fwutils: scripts for fetching the binary firmware blobs required by a few orinoco cards.
net-wireless/orinoco-9999 works for me. Please move the masking out of the ebuild and either to the global masking file or perhaps just have it have the ~x86 keyword? It's tiresome to manually update the ebuild when I update the drivers. (Not that I need to that often, but still.)
Re: comment 24 - so why not put "=net-wireless/orinoco-9999 -*" in /etc/portage/package.keywords?
As soon as portage support ebuild names like foo/bar-42_rcX_pY I will be able to make a snapshot of orinoco CVS (net-wireless/orinoco-0.15_rc4_p20060210).
I have the compaq w200 card and have these drivers working with 2.6.16 I'm now runnig 2.6.17-beyond1. Running the attached orinoco-cvs ebuild I get the error "Permisson denied (publickey)." when pulling the cvs down. Building from a CVS I pulled down recently I get the get the following error "orinoco_usb.c:1625: error: unknow field 'owner' specified in the initializer" 1644: implicit declaration of function 'register_firmware'. Running orinoco-9999 , orinoco_cs does not build with "63: error: syntax error befor "dev_link_t". I have gone into the work directory, copied orinoco_cs and spectrum_cs from the kernel, commented out prism_usb from Kbuild and recieve the same error as above on orinoco_usb.
Upstream moved from CVS to svn, which is why you are getting the error. I am still waiting on a response from upstream about when (if ever) he will make an actual release of orinoco_usb or if it will ever go into the kernel.
Removing release from this bug since it seems that there will never be a release where we can add this. Feel free to ask us when this is added and stable.
Please see bug #127300
this is now in net-wireless/orinoco-usb
