Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:48, Joe Carey wrote: > > It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an > > Agere/Proxim/Orinoco card, i.e. "Hermes" on a card built with the > > Prism2.5 chipset. You probably want the linux-wlan-ng drivers. > > > > Check these links: > > http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/linux-wlan-ng > > http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/ > > > > Have fun! > > > > joe > > That doesn't quite make sense to me. If the driver is wrong than why > does it report that it detected an "Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device" and then > gets information from it like the MAC address and firmware revision? > This fellow http://members.iinet.net.au/~mtriggs/wireless.html got his > card to work with the orinoco_pci driver. > > Unfortunately, the latest release of linux-wlan-ng doesn't work with > 2.6, although that support is coming down the pipe in the next release > according to the CHANGELOG at linux-wlan.com. I attempted to build the > module from their source tree for 0.2.1-pre20, but it expects a file > [kernel-source-root]/.tmp_versions to be present, which is not shipped > with kernel-headers-2.6.3-1-686 (or its dependency). So, without > actually building my own kernel, what would it take to get a kernel > source tree that matched the one used to build the stock Debian kernel > verbatim? >
Generally you have to do at least copy the .config file and do a "make dep" after installing the kernel sources before you have anything usable by other packages. HTH, Jeffrey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]