On 5/7/05, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Is anyone using USB WiFi devices with Fedora? > I have a Lucent/Orinoco USB Gold Client, > > I have been looking at the > "Linux driver for Lucent/Agere ORiNOCO USB devices" > by Øystein Olsen at <http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/>, > and have downloaded the Fedora-3 RPM. > > Unfortunately, I find some of the instructions rather confusing. > > (1) It says that > "The orinoco-usb driver is for now only available from cvs". > But I can't find an orinoco-usb CVS. > Does this mean the orinoco CVS? > > In any case, since there is an orinoco-usb rpm. > I assume there must be a separate CVS for this application. > Is this a misunderstanding? > Or if not, where is the orinoco-usb CVS? Just follow the links to the savanna nongnu page and click on CVS. Or go here : http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=orinoco > > (2) It says in the introudction > In <http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/index.html> > "The orinoco-usb driver is for now only available from cvs. > I put together this page to simplify > the building and installation of the driver. > The driver and script to build the driver, > are all available from the RPMS directory." > > I don't understand this; > if the driver is only available from cvs > then what is the RPM? > > (3) Later on the same page, it says > > "April 2005 > Thanks to a tip from Martin Visser, the firmware package is no longer > necessary. The firmware is hard-coded into the driver instead. In short if > you use a driver which is newer that April 4th 2005 or if you use > build-source.sh, you can safely ignore all instructions related to the > firmware and hotplug." > > But where exactly does one find a driver newer than April 4th 2005? > CVS should always have the latest code - for any project that uses it. Usually it is development/unstable code. > Any suggestions or advice gratefully received. > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
