Networking :: taking wifi drivers from other distro

I am a fairly new Ubuntu user. In Ubuntu my USR5410 pcmcia wifi card (with acx111 chipset) works fine.

Since Ubuntu and DSL are both members of the Debian family, shouldn't it be possible to copy the drivers from Ubuntu to DSL in order to make my wifi card work in DSL?
And if so ... I don't have a clue which files to use ...

I don't think it will work: DSL uses a 2.4.x kernel and Ubuntu a 2.6.x kernel, and from what I understand you cannot mix modules (driver in winspeak) from different kernel series'.

So if I find a debian-type distro with the right kernel it SHOULD work?

DSL uses kernel 2.4.26 and so does Slackware 10.0 (I think this is kernel specific, not distro specific). You could try - maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. If it doesn't work, you could try to install the myDSL gnu-utils package and use 'modprobe -f' to force it (busybox' modprobe doesn't support -f).

Taking drivers from other distros and forcing them into DSL's kernel seems like a bad idea. Have you considered compiling the source? Here is the home page: http://acx100.sourceforge.net

Whatever you end up doing, please make a DSL extension so the rest of us can enjoy it too. I would, but I don't have a acx111 card to test with.

Next Page...
original here.