Comment 7 for bug 63989

Allow me to reconfirm on an older Compaq Presario 2100:
Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

$ sudo modprobe -r orinoco_pci
$ sudo modprobe -r hostap_pci
$ sudo modprobe -r prism2_pci
$ sudo modprobe orinoco_pci

Works like a charm after this in edgy. The blackilist works too.

Perhaps the details of lshw could be used to check whether the prism2_pci diver should be used. Note that with the prism2_pci driver the output of lshw does NOT have a "serial" field. With the orinoco_pci driver it does.