I am going to be installing orinoco drivers tonight for my wireless card, but I just want to make sure I go about it correctly before I mess with any drivers. I want to install the drivers and then patch them with the patch available from http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html in order to enable monitor mode.

If I download orinoco-0.13e.tar.gz from http://ozlabs.org/dgibson and then

tar -xzvf orinoco-0.13e.tar.gz

I will then have the directory with the source files for the drivers in it. I understand that at this point, I need to patch the drivers. My only question is, what file to I use to patch with, and what command do I use? Is pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-orinoco-patch.diff the proper patch? Or is orinoco-0.13e-dragorn-patch.diff the right one?

Now, my next question is, once I have the patch, which command do I use to patch the drivers, and what directory should the patch be in when I run the command? Is it

patch -p0 < pcmcia-cs-X.Y.Z-orinoco-patch.diff

or

patch -p1 < orinoco-0.XX-patch.diff

Thanks for the help. This is with kernel 2.6.8.1 on Slackware 10

I just used that patch against the drivers that came with the kernel.

Apply the patch to your kernel source /usr/src/linux (if you installed it there with the link) and recompile your kernel (I have everything I need statically linked in, no modules, since it is a laptop and nothing changes).

See this page (part way down) for instructions on installing the patch to different versions of the kernel.

http://www.kismetwireless.net/download.shtml