On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 13:03 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > <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 > ============================== Are you using a 2.6.X kernel? The module names changed from module.o to module.ko with the 2.6 kernels. That may be part of your problem. > 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 >
