I have a D-Link dwl-122 802.11b usb dongle that I have been using for a long time with linux-wlan-ng.

It does not work for me any more. help.

If you do a bit of Google-searching, what is the chipset on that dongle?

It's a prism2 device which used to use the prism2_usb driver. Replying from a different machine right now. Not sure what module to load to get it working without linux-wlan-ng which doesn't support the kernel in slack 12.1. Also not sure how the new hotplug system works since there's no longer a rc.hotplug file.

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 2001:3700 D-Link Corp. [hex] DWL-122 802.11b
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

lsmod

Module Size Used by
snd_seq_dummy 6660 0
snd_seq_oss 32896 0
snd_seq_midi_event 10112 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50256 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 10380 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 40352 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 234724 21
lp 13348 0
fuse 45588 1
pcmcia 35884 0
nvidia 4712592 0
yenta_socket 26636 2
rsrc_nonstatic 14592 1 yenta_socket
video 19472 0
pcmcia_core 35988 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
output 6656 1 video
battery 14340 0
container 7424 0
ac 8068 0
snd_intel8x0 31900 2
thermal 16540 0
button 10000 0
processor 32680 1 thermal
snd_ac97_codec 98724 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 5760 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 72068 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
i2c_nforce2 9344 0
rtc_cmos 11040 0
rtc_core 18696 1 rtc_cmos
psmouse 40336 0
snd_timer 22532 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
k8temp 8192 0
snd 47716 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd _timer
rtc_lib 6528 1 rtc_core
hwmon 6276 1 k8temp
amd64_agp 13316 1
soundcore 9824 1 snd
serio_raw 9092 0
shpchp 32788 0
evdev 12672 5
agpgart 30664 2 nvidia,amd64_agp
snd_page_alloc 11528 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
parport_pc 27556 1
parport 34632 2 lp,parport_pc

Does anyone know how I can load either the orinoco or hostap drivers before I go back to slack 11.1?

To load the module, type `modprobe orinoco` or `modprobe hostap` as root. I don't know if that'll help or not -- it's been quite a while since I've used a prism 2 chipset for WiFi under Linux, and that was with a 2.4 kernel. You may have to copy some firmware to /lib/firmware -- but you probably won't have to. You may wish to try ndiswrapper if you can't get the linux-wlan-ng driver to work. There seems to be a patch here to get the driver to build with 2.6.24, but I don't know how useful that is.

Good luck.

I think I probably need an alias as well as the modprobe command. Also the are several of both orinoco and hostap drivers. I was hoping someone knew exactly what was needed, linux is not just a hobby for me I work on my machine and it currently has no internet. I just decided to install my subscription cds when they came in the mail. Now I'm hosed and posting in forums from my wife's laptop.

The "modprobe" command is kept in /sbin : "/sbin/modprobe <module>". If Slack 11.1 worked for you, and given you use your laptop for work, I would heavily suggest just reinstalling 11.1.

Hard drive space permitting, make another partition for 12.1 and tinker with it in your spare time. It took me almost a solid week to figure out how to get my Broadcom wireless drivers working.

does anyone know of a usb wifi device that works out of the box with slack 12.1? NOT using ndiswrapper, I have no desire to use windows drivers, I've been windows free since 2003.