Hi! On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 05:26:46PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > I want to connect to a neighbour's network to use his adsl connection > for large downloads.
Presumably he knows that ;-)
> I have a Usb Belkin Adaptor (F5D6050) which works fine in W2000,
> but I need it in Sarge with a 2.4 kernel that I shall some change to 2.6
> one, and also in Sid with a 2.6.7 kernel.
?? some=soon?
This is an atmel-based chipset - I *think* i had that working under 2.4,
but I've been running 2.6 for a long time... and my wireless cards
(atmel based too) work fine under 2.6.5
> I've been unable to find a newbie type howto showing, what are the kernel
> requirements, what to put into /etc/networks/ and so on. At the moment I
> seem unable to get either installation to recognize that the Adaptor is
> there at all. 'wireless-tools' is installed but 'iwconfig' says no
> wireless extensions.
What about:
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jmahler/howto/SMC.html
?
(first hit on google when searching for "atmel howto")
> Both kernels are those with the installs (ie I've not yet done any
> recompile - am waiting to see what is required). It does seem,
> however, that everything except the kitchen sink is selected as a
> module.
Kernel compiles aren't difficult - and even easier under 2.6. Lots of
howtos out there, e.g.:
http://www.desktop-linux.net/debkernel.htm
> I've spent hours in googling - there's a mass of information, but nothing at
> elementary level where I need to start. I think the driver I may require is
> the atmel at76c503 unless there's one already available in the kernels.
> I've ploughed through Jean Touttilhes' vast output and understand some
> of it, but not exactly where to start. There's much more, but no overall
> step by step.
I went through that a while back - and it turned out to be easy. As far
as I understand, the atmel chipset is supported natively under newer
kernels, but I have not yet ventured there
Hope this helps
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