Sounds easy enough, i will try it niklas ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Goodenough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "niklas adolfsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "mel kravitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
