Re: Problem with hermes wireless card
Sounds easy enough, i will try it
niklas
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Goodenough" <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>
To: "niklas adolfsson" <niklas.adolfsson@home.se>; "mel kravitz"
<melk@switchpwr.com>
Cc: <debian-laptop@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: Problem with hermes wireless card
> On Friday 30 May 2003 07:53, niklas adolfsson wrote:
> > mel kravitz wrote:
> > >Joel Alexandre <jcma@rnl.ist.utl.pt> said:
> > >>info about the pci card
> > >>02:08.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan
> > >>chipset (rev 01)
> > >
> > >this chipset is better supported by the hostap, or linux-wlan-ng
> > >drivers, ses:
> > >1)http://hostap.epitest.fi/
> > >2)http://www.linux-wlan.org/
> > >i use both drivers on different boxes, they support prism2->3 cards.
> > >-Mel
> >
> > When will Debian have a package that fixes this problem with Hermes and
> > Prism cards, the orinoco driver that is default (i think) is not
> > updated, the Prism2 card that i have shall work with a newer orinoco
> > driver but i'm to green to install and get drivers working, every time i
> > try i end up with no network so now im sticking to the slow orinoco
> > driver. couldnt anyone otherwise make a really good step by step guide
> > to install one of the workink drivers for Hermes and Prism cards.
> >
> > niklas
>
> Try the hostap pacakges. There is hostapd (an authentication deamon),
> hostap-utils (utilities for hostap) and hostap-source (the kernel
> driver). You also need to install pcmcia-source. Then use make-kpkg
> modules_install to build the install deb against your kernel and install
> the hostap....deb file.
>
> David
>
>
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