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There is a more recent version of the Agere driver
available, which has been patched for 2.6 kernels. See
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=304217>

It's really a low hanging fruit.  The big thing that was
missing was firmware download for Agere, but Dave implemented
that.

You mean I can convert the sta_h2.h file from the above link to 
some binary file and let orinoco+Dave's patches load that 
firmware to the card?

I'm asking this because I also have a bunch of Hermes I and 
Hermes II cards, which don't work with the Orinoco driver, but 
with the "brought somewhat up to kernel 2.6" wlags_h2_718.tgz 
driver from the above link. That driver works, but hurts the 
eyes, and now has some problems with 2.6.25, e.g. at unloading 
time.