[dapper regression] hostap driver no longer properly blacklists orinoco

You should be installing hostap-utils.

I have hostap-utils. The problem remains.

I think this should be a quickly closable bug.
Just add the the blacklist file in /etc/modprobe.d and toss the file in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d.

i've had a similar problem with an upgrade from 5.10 to 6.06 (breezy to dapper).

the orinoco module is getting loaded before the hostap modules. this, in turn, loads the orinoco_pci and hermes modules. as a result when hostap comes around and tries to load the firmware into my DLinkDWL520E1 pci card, it can't.

to fix this i have added orinoco to the list in /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/hostap-utils file.

this file already had four modules in it, but did not have the plainly named orinoco:
orinoco_plx
orinoco_cs
orinoco_pci
hermes

I confirm the bug.
On dapper, dpkg -L hostap-utils gives :
/.
/usr
/usr/sbin
/usr/sbin/hostap_crypt_conf
/usr/sbin/hostap_diag
/usr/sbin/hostap_io_debug
/usr/sbin/hostap_rid
/usr/sbin/prism2_param
/usr/sbin/prism2_srec
/usr/sbin/split_combined_hex
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/hostap-utils
/usr/share/doc/hostap-utils/README.Debian
/usr/share/doc/hostap-utils/copyright
/usr/share/doc/hostap-utils/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/hostap-utils/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/hostap-utils/changelog.Debian.gz
/etc
/etc/network
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/hostap-utils
/etc/pcmcia
/etc/pcmcia/hostap_cs.conf
/etc/hotplug
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d
/etc/hotplug/blacklist.d/hostap-utils
/etc/discover.d
/etc/discover.d/hostap-utils

This means orinoco is not blacklist automatically because done in hotplug, which is not present now.
The correct place for place for blacklist is /etc/modprobe.d/

After doing this manually, my prism2 based card is working succesfully with wpa_supplicant for wpa (impossible with orinoco driver).

Re: Pascal Vincent at 2006-09-24 19:25:36 UTC

this work for my DLink DWL520E1 pci card and this also works well for my Linksys WPC11 ver.3 pcmcia card too.

i added

blacklist orinoco_plx
blacklist orinoco_cs
blacklist orinoco_pci
blacklist hermes
blacklist orinoco
blacklist airport

to my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

but the orinoco driver still loads.

If you're using a PCMCIA-based device, you'll have to fiddle with the contents of /etc/pcmcia/config, too.

On gutsy, it appears that hostap is the only prism driver, so this is not really a problem anymore.

Is this issue still relevant in 8.10 alpha?

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