Well, after much difficulty, I was able to upgrade the firmware to 1.7.4. Unfortunately, now feisty doesn't recognize the wireless card at all. However, dapper does, with the orinoco_pci driver, and what's more is that NetworkManager actually works now. So the new firmware seems to work, but for whatever reason it's not recognized in feisty.
Incidentally, is there some trick to get prism2_srec to work with the newer kernels? When I tried using it to flash the wireless card, it kept complaining about PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT not being defined in hostap_config.h. I installed the kernel source, and it seems that it's defined by default. PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD needs to be defined as well, which is controlled by CONFIG_HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM, which is one of the kernel configuration options, which also seems to be defined by default. Since it didn't work, I tried defining PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD explicitly (outside the if) and compiling the kernel, but that still didn't work. What I ended up doing was installing an old version of debian with the 2.6.8 kernel, compiling the hostap-source package, and then was able to download the firmware with prism2_srec. Needless to say, this is a pain, so I'm just wondering if anyone knows the trick to get this to work, or if there's a bug somewhere or what. ** Attachment added: "Most recent dmesg.log (wireless card not recognized)" http://librarian.launchpad.net/7336866/dmesg.log -- Cannot connect to wireless network with NetworkManager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103020 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
