Re: orinoco_usb driver

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 22:16 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Is the orinoco_usb Linux module still maintained?

AFAIK, it never was; it's never been part of the upstream official
kernel, and therefore it's of questionable quality and probably not
really supported.

> I'm looking for a driver for an Avaya PCI-to-PCMCIA WiFi device
> under Fedora-11.

I think that's the "PLX" bridge thing but I could be wrong.  What do you
get from 'lspci' and 'lspcmcia'?  I doubt that thing has anything to do
with USB.  It could be as simple as your cards' IDs not being in the
driver.

Dan


> The orinoco-users mailing list seems to be more or less in abeyance,
> with no posts since May.
> 
> I downloaded the orinoco_usb sources by
> svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/orinoco/branches/usb orinoco
> but they don't compile under kernel-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 :
> --------------------------------------
> make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 M=/tmp/orinoco 
> KERNELRELEASE=2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586'
>   CC [M]  /tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.o
> In file included from /tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c:70:
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco.h: In function ‘orinoco_spin_unlock’:
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco.h:188: warning: ‘__raw_spin_unlock’ is static but used 
> in inline function ‘orinoco_spin_unlock’ which is not static
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco.h:188: warning: ‘raw_local_irq_enable’ is static but 
> used in inline function ‘orinoco_spin_unlock’ which is not static
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c: In function ‘ezusb_request_out_callback’:
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c:568: error: implicit declaration of function 
> ‘warn’
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c: In function ‘ezusb_probe’:
> /tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.c:1535: warning: assignment discards qualifiers 
> from pointer target type
> make[2]: *** [/tmp/orinoco/orinoco_usb.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/orinoco] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586'
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> --------------------------------------
> 
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