To find the pcmcia IDs you can "lspcmcia -v" (in pcmciautils). Given you have a
prism based and not a hermes based card, it should be possible to add the IDs
to drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c. Search for PCMCIA_DEVICE_MANF_CARD.
You may want to check if the IDs are already present and ar
...and also please keep in mind, that there are (at least) TWO bugs:
1) The hostap_cs module is blocked by another module (like prism2_cs/orinoco_cs)
2) The hostap_cs failes to probe a card (as of a missing pcmcia id/string)
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[Edgy regression] Hostap driver for PRISM2 wifi card not working any
Some quick googling revealed:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-pcmcia/2006-February/003298.html
The problem is, that the pcmcia ids are NOT unique, since some hermes based
cards and prism based cards share the 0x0156 / 0x0002 .
The hermes based cards are incompatible with the hostap dri