Bug#475556: ma311 wireless card not assigned correct driver after installation

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 05:00:34PM +0100, Mark Florian wrote:
> Package: installation
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> I have the Netgear MA311 card, which works correctly with the orinoco_pci module. However, both orinoco_pci and hostap_pci are loaded, rendering the card useless.
> 
> To fix it, I need to rmmod hostap_pci, hostap, ieee80211_crypt, orinoco_pci, orinoco, hermes, and then finally modprobe orinoco_pci to get the card working again.
> 
> To get the card to work each time the machine boots up, I've had to blacklist the hostap drivers too.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz