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Support of early-model (aka 'variant 1', 'old variant') ORiNOCO USB wireless LAN devices is available in the mainline Orinoco driver since Linux 2.6.35. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page. These devices are essentially adapters.

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This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on the Hermes I chipset - using a USB interface - on Debian systems.

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1. Hermes I USB devices (orinoco_usb)

Support of early-model (aka 'variant 1', 'old variant') ORiNOCO USB wireless LAN devices is available in the mainline Orinoco driver since Linux 2.6.35. Supported devices are listed at the end of this page.

These devices are essentially adapters. Internally, they consist of a PCMCIA (PC Card) device with a Lucent/Agere Hermes I chipset, connected by a PCMCIA-to-USB ('EZUSB') bridge to the host system.

Installation

The Orinoco USB driver is part of the Linux kernel since version 2.6.35.

For device operation, firmware for the EZUSB bridge is required to be installed. For WPA support, card firmware version 9.42 (or later) is required together with compatible bridge firmware; the Orinoco driver will attempt to download card firmware from userspace during device initialization.

Debian 7 'Wheezy'

1. Add a 'non-free' component to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

2. Update the list of available packages and install the firmware-linux-nonfree, unzip and wget packages:

3. Acquire and install compatible EZUSB bridge firmware:

4. Connect the device to your system. The orinoco_usb kernel module is automatically loaded for supported devices.

5. Configure your interface as appropriate.

Troubleshooting

• Examine the kernel ring buffer (dmesg(1)) to verify the EZUSB bridge firmware is being loaded by the driver. If this is not available, no wireless interface will be created.

  • Ensure the bridge firmware is installed, then reinsert the kernel module: modprobe -r orinoco_usb ; modprobe orinoco_usb

• For WPA support, firmware version 9.42 or later is required to be downloaded to the card.

  • Ensure the firmware-linux-nonfree package is installed.

  • WPA capability can be verified by the presence of 'WPA-PSK supported' in the buffer:

• Only WPA-PSK TKIP is supported.

  • You may need to prevent wpa_supplicant from initially using CCMP, for example in /etc/network/interfaces:

Supported Devices

The page HowToIdentifyADevice/USB explains how to identify a USB device.

The following list is based on the alias fields of orinoco_usb in Debian 3.2.0 (3.2.46-1) kernel images:

Unsupported

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All ORiNOCO USB 'variant 2' / 'new variant' devices. These devices use a single-board design with an Intersil Prism 2 chipset, see linux-wlan-ng.

See Also

• orinoco

• How to use a WiFi interface

External Links

• http://orinoco.nongnu.org/ - The Linux ORiNOCO Driver

• http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/orinoco - Driver page on Linux Wireless

• http://www.wlan.webd.pl/orinoco/ - Orinoco USB Unofficial Complex Support Page

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