Maybe someone who knows how to try these things might look at the orinoco driver rather than the hostap driver ?
From
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tou ... tml#Prism2
"3.7 Intersil PrismII support in the Orinoco driver
The Orinoco driver (see section 3) may be used with most PrismII cards.
3.8 Intersil PrismII driver with HostAP mode
Driver status : stable
Driver name : Pcmcia : hostap_cs.o
PLX : hostap_plx.o
PCI : hostap_pci.o
Versions : v0.1.3 (stable), 0.2.0 (development)
Where : http://hostap.epitest.fi/
Maintainer : Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Mailing list : http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/"
and from
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tou ... ml#Orinoco
"3.2 Wavelan IEEE/Orinoco, PrismII and Symbol cards
Driver status : stable
Driver name : Pcmcia : orinoco_cs.o
PLX : orinoco_plx.o
PCI : orinoco_pci.o
Version : v0.13e, v0.14alpha2
Where : Linux kernel (2.4.21 ; 2.5.71)
Pcmcia package (3.1.34)
http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco/
Maintainers : David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Web page : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tou ... inoco.html
Mailing list : http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=44338"
