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News2004/05/25.a ORiNOCO-USB users must migrateAfter the last news, this project is no more developed as a single independent project. The ORiNOCO-USB driver was integrated into the Official ORiNOCO Driver project for Linux, so the best way you will kept up-to-date with the ORiNOCO-USB driver development is reading the website and subscribing the mailing lists. Please, you should subscribe to the ORiNOCO mailing lists for user support and/or contributing on development. 2004/05/10.a We'll miss you RantyThe ORiNOCO-USB author, kernel hacker, Debian Developer and a contributor to a lot of other free software projects (like LIRC, qvplay or FPM), Manuel Estrada Sainz aka "Ranty" died in a car accident. 2003/08/22.a ORiNOCO-USB RPM's for RedHat 9.0 availableØystein Olsen has made available some rpm's with prebuild binary modules and source code for RedHat 9 users: "They require curl (apt-get install curl), and you must be online during the (first) install, since the firmware is dowloaded by the rpm. If you don't have RedHat 9 or don't use any of the kernels(**) at that location, I've tried to create a generic src.rpm. If you're really lucky, that might work. The rpm at this site has been tested on Compaq Evo N1000v and Compaq Evo N800w. The rpm takes a backup of possible drivers that might interfere with the ones provided by this package, and restores them when the package is uninstalled. (I probably should put a readme.txt somewhere.)" Thanks Øystein! 2003/08/13.a Version 0.2.2 releasedSome bug fixes and one new supported device. This one could fix a kernel oops someone was having on module unload. Debian binary module packages for 2.4.21-4 prebuild kernels are also available. Take a look at the release notes for more information. 2003/07/14.a Orinoco-USB merged with official Orinoco driversThe Orinoco-USB code is already merged into the CVS with the official Linux kernel Orinoco driver. For the moment, only in CVS. If you want more information, go to the project page at Savannah. 2003/06/25.d Web ported to XHTML 1.1 + CSS2We have ported the html code and updated the web to XXI century in the way of the newer W3C standards . We hope the change is for better :) 2003/06/25.c Version 0.2.1 releasedFollowing the Linus Torvalds theory, "release often, release soon", here comes the new 0.2.1 release, that fixes the README file and update the building system. 2003/06/25.b Debian packages repository available.If you use Debian GNU/Linux, you have available packages throught APT with precompilated drivers for the Debian standard kernels, and a sources package ready to build with make-kpkg :). You can add to yoursources.list the entry:: deb http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable/ 2003/06/25.a Version 0.2.0 releasedA new driver version is available. You can read the changelog and download it from the project page at Alioth. With this release, the Debian users can make driver packages throught kernel-package. Only you have to extract the contents of the archive into /usr/src/modules and run (as root) "make-kpkg modules-image" into the Linux kernel sources tree. DevelopersAuthor of the driver, based on the orinoco's official Linux kernel drivers and with a few bits from linux-wlan-ng.. Web mantainer. Debian packages repositoryYou have available packages with precompilated drivers for the Debian standard kernels, and a sources package ready to build manually or better with make-kpkg. You can add to your sources.list the entry:: deb http://orinoco-usb.alioth.debian.org/debian/ unstable/ RedHat 9.0 packagesØystein Olsen has made available some rpm's with prebuild binary modules and source code for RedHat 9 users. Devices known to work
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Utilitiessearch_firmware.pySearches a hole directory tree for Orinoco USB firmware and extracts all firmware it finds: search_firmware.py dir [dir [dir ...]] variant_offset.pyWill tell you the offset of the byte that defines the card variant. d51v30.zipA GPL 8051 disassembler, useful to reverse engineer the firmware. file_spy A Linux kernel module that logs interesting activity on files. In conjunction with VMware it can be used to monitor the USB traffic instead of using one of the Snoopy variants. I'll polish it a little and post it here when I have time.. Notes on the ProtocolThe information I have about the protocol. I got it from disassembled firmware and USB communication dumps, so it may not be accurate, but I did get the device to work, so it must not be so wrong. Now that I look at it, it is a little outdated but still useful. Notes
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