hostap driver working again
Without realising it I had switched back to the hostap driver because I had wlan0 set as my default network setup instead of eth1. I don’t remember doing anything to get it to work. It must have been when I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.12.
Some preliminary tests show that I get a better signal with the orinoco driver so it’s probably worth changing to that one permanently. Both setups appear to have something slightly wrong with them at the moment, and I’m sure all I need to do to make the orinoco talk as wlan0 is to change my /etc/modules.d/wlan file.
The error I get with the orinoco driver is:
/etc/init.d/net.eth1: line 683: interfacevariable: command not found
/etc/init.d/net.eth1: line 466: interfacevariable: command not found
The error I get with the hostap driver is:
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
Neither stops the driver from working, but the first one looks like an error in the startup script, the second one looks a bit more serious.
