From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: I have a laptop (Fujitsu P-2046) with a Prism 2.5 MiniPCI wireless card (DID=1260:3873 rev 01). Fedora Core 2 selects the orinoco driver for this card, however, it works extremely unreliably; saying it works at all is probably a stretch. I have been using the "HostAP" driver for this card, and it works quite well. It would be nice if this was included in Fedora. FWIW, HostAP reports the following release numbers: NIC id=0x8013 v1.0.0; PRI id=0x15 v1.0.7; STA id=0x1f v1.3.6. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try using orinoco driver 2. Watch orinoco driver lock up 3. Try using HostAP driver 4. Watch HostAP driver *not* lock up Additional info:
Note: the ATrpms repository, http://www.atrpms.net/, has an RPMized version of this driver.
Until yum.conf includes a per-repository "no update" directive, I'm not going to add atrpms. It tries to replace major components of FC and, at last try, had major unresoved dependency issues. No thank you. Please consider supporting these cards in the main distribution!!!
I can report similarly poor performance with an orinoco PIC card using the orinoco_pci driver. DID 10ec:8139. The device stops responding to network traffic, and emits an "AP Out of Range" in the syslog. Removing the orinoco_pci kernel module and re-upping the interface clears the problem.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.
The performance of this driver has improved in the FC3 kernels. Thanks,