
 1. Install the driver
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  a sudo make install in driver/orinoco-0.13b-hermesap-0.1a/ should do it
  if you get unresolved symbols reinstall your kernel and/or
  pcmcia_cs properly
  if it still doesn't work you _could_ but _shouldn't_ ;) just
  copy all the .c and .h files from driver/orinoco-0.13b-hermesap-0.1a/ 
  over the ones of your kernel or pcmcia_cs and recompile+install your 
  kernel or pcmcia_cs

 2. Find a Tertiary (=AP mode) firmware | obsolete, therefor  removed
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 - Why is there no firmware included?
 + Since I don't have any license / copyright information on Tertiary
   Firmware(s) I won't include them here.
   So you have to download & extract one yourself as explained here.

 Now you need an Tertiary Firmware to enable BSS master mode.
 Any Accesspoint driver for Hermes cards contains such a firmware,
 since the Firmware gets loaded into the RAM of the Card during init.
 We have to extract this Firmware from the Binary now.

 3. Get & extract the Tertiary firmware 
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 !!!!! YOU CURRENTLY HAVE TO DO THAT ON A LITTLE ENDIAN (*) MACHINE !!!!!
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 (*) if you don't know what this is you probably have one *sfg* :-]]
     (hfwget.c doesn't yet support big endian - tellme if you wanna fix it :))
 
 go to the firmware dir and just execute the hfwget.sh script - it will
   1) download a windows driver (zipped) via wget
   2) extract the file containing the firmware from this zipfile via unzip
   3) extract the hfw-file from the file from 2) with hfwget
   4) clean up (remove files generated in 1) and 2))
 the last line from the extraction process should show something like:
 -rw-r--r--    1 hunz     hunz       130578 Feb 23 18:45 T1085800.hfw
 if there is no such file and you got an error during the extraction process
 have a look at the source of the hfwget.sh script and execute each step
 manually to find, solve and report the problem. (scroll down for mailaddr.)
 
 4. Upload the firmware into the card
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 Upload the extracted hfw file from chapter 3 into your card.
 go into the hfw dir and execute:
 sudo ./hfwload eth1 ../firmware/T1085800.hfw
 (replace eth1 with the network device of your Hermes card)
 (the network device must be down (ifconfig eth1 down) before doing this)
 If you didn't get an error your card probably accepted the AP mode firmware.

 5. AP mode
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 now your can do an ifconfig eth1 up and the card will start broadcasting
 beacons (you'll see the RX/TX Led flashing - if not something probably
 went wrong ;()

 in iwconfig ethX you should now see Mode: Master

 you may set an SSID with iwconfig ethX essid foobar
 zero-length ("Any") won't work in BSS mode - if you want hidden mode do:
 iwpriv ethX hidden 1
 you may turn it of again with
 iwpriv ethX hidden 0

 you can also set the channel with iwconfig ethX channel X

 WEP _should_ work as usual - you can configure wepkeys with 
 iwconfig ethX enc s:...

 other stuff is untested / not working yet
 but have a look at the TODO before asking for features ;)

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 If you have a question please look at the FAQ first.

 If you have any bugreports/comments/feature requests/etc mail me:
 hermesap@hunz.org

 I'd appreciate it if someone could provide a web based discussion board
 since I don't like mailinglists very much.
 The advantage over direct mails to me is that several users often have 
 the same questions 
 and so I (or someone else) only have to answer them once in the Board. 

   -Hunz <hermesap@hunz.org>
   

