Re: USB WiFi

From: Billy Tallis (wtallis_at_gmail.com)
Date: 05/07/05

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To: tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On 5/7/05, Timothy Murphy <tim@birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> 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.
    >
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