Comment 65 for bug 63989

I have just done a clean install of Hardy and upgraded the firmware of my card. Still no success.... (my other ubuntu desktop has no problems with it) Is it still possible to use the orinoco drivers on Hardy? They worked for me on Dapper & Edgy.

$ sudo hostap_diag wlan0
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.0
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.2 (station firmware)

$ sudo lshw -class network
  *-network:0
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
       vendor: Intersil Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:01:02.0
       logical name: wifi0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:05:3c:06:c2:96
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list logical wireless ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=hostap firmware=1.8.2 latency=64 module=hostap_pci multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b

$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry short limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

wlan0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"" Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: None
          Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry short limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-73 dBm Noise level=-73 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

irda0 no wireless extensions.

$ iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wifi0 No scan results

wlan0 No scan results

irda0 Interface doesn't support scanning.