Orinoco-USB (Compaq W200) No Joy

[gandalf2041]

I've scoured around and have seen bits and pieces of how to get the W200 Wireless card on my Evo N610c working but so far, no luck. According to Oystein Olsen's Site (http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/) I shouldn't need to update the firmware because it is included in the newest driver. Unfortunately, I can't get it to build using the script he provides (I have sent Oystein an email but, he hasn't responded yet).

I also got a response on another orinoco thread (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100101) here on Fedora Forum indicating that the newest orinoco drivers were included for FC5 but I can't seem to get my card recognized. So far, I haven't had much luck on IRC either.

Has anyone been able to get an orinoco-usb card working under FC5? :confused: If so...how did you do it?

[gandalf2041]

Thanks to Jared Greenwald on the Orinoco-Users mailing list, this issue has been solved.
Jared's patch is attached.

[jacobwm]

can you post the solution that worked for you? Which drivers does this patch go to? I've downloaded what I think are the CVS drivers, but this patch doesn't seem to work against that. Is it supposed to patch against the kernel drivers?

Is there a site that you referenced other than the one listed or special kernel changes needed?

The orinoco-usb issue is driving me crazy!!

[gandalf2041]

To manually apply the changes in the patch, 3 files must be changed:

1. orinoco_usb.c
2. prism_usb.c
3. Kbuild

In the first two files locate and comment out the following line:

#.owner = THIS_MODULE

In the Kbuild file comment out the following lines:

#tmp-m := hermes.o orinoco.o
#tmp-$(CONFIG_PPC_PMAC) += airport.o
#tmp-$(CONFIG_PCI) += orinoco_nortel.o orinoco_pci.o orinoco_plx.o orinoco_tmd.o
#tmp-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) += orinoco_cs.o
#tmp-$(CONFIG_PCMCIA) += spectrum_cs.o

You should now be able to build the module without errors:
make clean
make
su -

Enter root password and
make install

If you want to see what is going on with the patch, just extract and open orinoco.patch in any text editor. It's pretty easy to follow. Good Luck! :)