Comment 17 for bug 66696

It looks like David Kilroy is doing some work for WPA-enabled orinoco drivers. See these references:
Patch series intro: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/19671
Firmware file: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.orinoco.devel/873/focus=905
Orinoco driver tree showing patches comitted: http://repo.or.cz/w/orinoco.git?a=log
Command line utility to extract firmware from windows driver: http://repo.or.cz/w/agere_fw_utils.git

It would be nice to get the standalone version of the orinoco drivers (which includes these patches) together with the necessary tools and firmware files bundled in some DKMS-enabled ubuntu package and uploaded to some PPA. I might give this a try when I find the time, but I'm no debian packaging guru, so I wouldn't expect too much.