Comment 2 for bug 36718

I agree that the modutils (or the kernel) should be updated so that hostap controlling a card comes up in Managed mode rather than master, this is the common case and hardly any of the management software knows how to reset it so I have to have "wireless-mode managed" shoved into '/etc/network/interfaces'.

Hostap only works with the Intersil 2.5 on my [currently out of service] ThinkPad R31. According to my notes, this IDs as:

  1260:3873/1668:0406

which is a mini-pci device:

  01:05.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Actiontec Electronics Inc: Unknown device 0406

Not convinced about the blacklist, but whitelists are good.