USB WiFi

[Billy Tallis]

On 5/7/05, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Is anyone using USB WiFi devices with Fedora?
> I have a Lucent/Orinoco USB Gold Client,
> 
> I have been looking at the
> "Linux driver for Lucent/Agere ORiNOCO USB devices"
> by Øystein Olsen at <http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/>,
> and have downloaded the Fedora-3 RPM.
> 
> Unfortunately, I find some of the instructions rather confusing.
> 
> (1) It says that
> "The orinoco-usb driver is for now only available from cvs".
> But I can't find an orinoco-usb CVS.
> Does this mean the orinoco CVS?
> 
> In any case, since there is an orinoco-usb rpm.
> I assume there must be a separate CVS for this application.
> Is this a misunderstanding?
> Or if not, where is the orinoco-usb CVS?

Just follow the links to the savanna nongnu page and click on CVS.
Or go here : http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=orinoco

> 
> (2) It says in the introudction
> In <http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/index.html>
> "The orinoco-usb driver is for now only available from cvs.
>  I put together this page to simplify
> the building and installation of the driver.
> The driver and script to build the driver,
> are all available from the RPMS directory."
> 
> I don't understand this;
> if the driver is only available from cvs
> then what is the RPM?
> 
> (3) Later on the same page, it says
> 
> "April 2005
> Thanks to a tip from Martin Visser, the firmware package is no longer
> necessary. The firmware is hard-coded into the driver instead. In short if
> you use a driver which is newer that April 4th 2005 or if you use
> build-source.sh, you can safely ignore all instructions related to the
> firmware and hotplug."
> 
> But where exactly does one find a driver newer than April 4th 2005?
> 

CVS should always have the latest code - for any project that uses it.
Usually it is development/unstable code.


> Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
> 
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