Re: [newbies] wireless card...

[David Smith]

So, what's the exact model of the card? If you share that info, I can 
give you much more specific details on how to get it working. Was that 
link by chance a link to the linux-wlan-ng project? If so, you're in luck.

--Dave

Erin! wrote:

it's a US Robotics card, and I got the driver from usr.com (they had a
link to an unsupported linux driver...  yes, i meant ./configure...  i
don't remember the error messages i was getting, but this weekend i can
probably find some time to recreate it...  actually, if i remember
correctly, after about 45 minutes i think i got it to go through
without error messages, but when i tried to use the card, it wouldn't
work...  
anyway, thanx for the help...  i'll post more info when i get it (this
is a problem that i had a while ago...
~Erin

--- David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

How about some more details:
1. What's the exact model of the card?
2. Where did you get the driver?
3. Did you mean ./configure instead of ./config?
Just to provide an overview of how drivers are installed under Linux 
(when compiling from source):

Usually, the ./configure command will create all the Makefiles
necessary 
to build the driver. Then, you type "make" to start the build 
(compilation) process. That creates a couple small files with .o as
the 
extension. These are the drivers. Then, typing "make install" copies 
those files to a directory in /lib/modules. That way, you can say 
"insmod driver_name" and it will start using the driver. It's usually

better to get a binary version of the driver (usually, an rpm file).

Hope this helps. Let us know the details of your question, and we'll
see 
if we can get some better answers.

--Dave

Erin! wrote:

   

okay, so i have a wireless card (US Robotics) and it works fine when
i'm in windows, but even though i've installed a linux driver, it
refuses to work...  i'm not very good at installing from tars, so
     

maybe
   

i'm doing something wrong, but i typed in: 
tar -zxvf tarname.tar
then tried ./config, make, make install, etc....  i even read the
README that was inside the tarball, but none of that seemed to
     

work... 
   

im' not sure if i'm just inept or what...  i've had similar problems
with other programs i've tried to install...  am i skipping steps in
the install process????
~Erin


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