USB WiFi

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 13:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> <posted & mailed>
> 
> Billy Tallis 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
> 
> OK, I got the CVS code, compiled it (with linux-2.6.11) and installed it.
> There was no problem in that.
> I noticed that orinoco_usb.c was not compiled with the given Makefile,
> which contains the lines
> ==============================
> ifdef CONFIG_USB
> ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER
> MODULES += orinoco_usb.o
> endif
> MODULES += prism_usb.o
> endif
> ==============================

Are you using a 2.6.X kernel?
The module names changed from module.o to module.ko with the 2.6
kernels.  That may be part of your problem.

> So I added
> CONFIG_USB=1
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=1
> at the beginning of the Makefile,
> and now orinoco_usb.o was compiled,
> and added to /lib/modules by "make install".
> 
> This module was not added automatically
> when I plugged in the USB device,
> so I added it with "modprobe orinoco_usb".
> 
> I saw from /var/log/messages that my laptop
> did indeed see this device.
> However, no entry in /dev seemed to be made,
> and it is not clear to me how this module
> is meant to be used.
> 
> So I would repeat my query:
> Is anyone actually using the Lucent/Orinoco USB WiFi device
> (or indeed, any USB WiFi device) under Fedora?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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