Hostap Driver for PCI & PCMCIA

I have the hostap driver working with my Dlink-520 pci card. It should work without any configuration for most, but the Dlink 520 card i have is the E1 version which is a Prism 2.5 chipset, but contains no firmware. The firmware is usually installed to the hd with the packaged CD that installs the driver, then downloaded to the card when it is brought up. I added some prism firmware to the ZoneCD in /etc/firmware which i download into the card by using the pre.sh file to run "/usr/sbin/hostap_fw_load wlan0". The hostap_fw_load script has been preconfigured to load the firmware for the Dlink 520 (E1 hardware version). It can be tweaked with a little more shell scripting or by remastering the iso. This script is only needed when your pci card has no firmware...

Other than that, the next ZoneCD release will automatically detect a Prism chipset in a PCMCIA or PCI device and automatically load the hostap driver and configure the ZoneCD to use the wlan0 device, not eth1.

BTW - I am going to see Slayer, Mastodon, and Killswitch Engage at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia tonight... so this may be my last post :-O