hostap it is
I got back home and attempted to get my wireless network working again (it broke down when I switched ISPs and was forced to use a different ADSL modem). I switched the router to act as a wireless gateway and live on a separate subnet. This meant it could act as the DHCP server. The modem would serve DHCP addresses over ethernet but not through the wireless router, which was the problem I was having before. Around the same time I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.x and the wireless drivers stopped working, and only have recently come back to life.
Anyway all that was fairly straightforward, back to the drivers. The ‘hostap’ driver connected to my Thinkpad to the network without any hassles (still had the old config). The ‘orinoco’ driver seemed to have troubles with the security setup. Rather than waste any more time I decided to drop it and just use the ‘hostap’ driver.
