Comment 3 for bug 11778

Actually hostap (as far as I know) is quite actively maintained. One issue is
that some cards need binary firmware that I am not sure of Ubuntu can
redistribute (they do not come with hostap).
I have a D-Link 520 rev-e card which is supported by hostap, but perhaps since
previous revisions are supported by the orinoco driver, hotplug loads that first
and when I then load hostap, it results in a crash. Right now I blacklist
orinoco and recompile hostap whenever there's a kernel update, but this clearly
is not an ideal solution.