Re: orinoco_usb driver
- From: Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>
- To: gayleard eircom net
- Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: orinoco_usb driver
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:15:45 -0800
On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 23:07 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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.
Also, what are the numbers on the large bridge chip that's on the card?
Dan
> 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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