<posted & mailed> Billy Tallis 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 OK, I got the CVS code, compiled it (with linux-2.6.11) and installed it. There was no problem in that. I noticed that orinoco_usb.c was not compiled with the given Makefile, which contains the lines ============================== ifdef CONFIG_USB ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER MODULES += orinoco_usb.o endif MODULES += prism_usb.o endif ============================== So I added CONFIG_USB=1 CONFIG_FW_LOADER=1 at the beginning of the Makefile, and now orinoco_usb.o was compiled, and added to /lib/modules by "make install". This module was not added automatically when I plugged in the USB device, so I added it with "modprobe orinoco_usb". I saw from /var/log/messages that my laptop did indeed see this device. However, no entry in /dev seemed to be made, and it is not clear to me how this module is meant to be used. So I would repeat my query: Is anyone actually using the Lucent/Orinoco USB WiFi device (or indeed, any USB WiFi device) under Fedora? -- 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
