. linux-wlan driver

Forum: Networking
Topic: . linux-wlan driver
started by: KeatonTech

Posted by KeatonTech on Nov. 07 2006,02:14

Ok, so i got another n00by question. I have an old Siemens SpeedStream PCMCIA network card on my old laptop. I found a site (I forget where) that said I needed the < Linux-wlan > driver. So how do you install that (or any) driver on DSL?

Posted by KeatonTech on Nov. 07 2006,23:42

Well, I got the driver onto my USB drive, and ran

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sudo ./configure

It executed fine, asking me what I wanted to build. Then I got the following error

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Linux Source Tree /lib/modules/2.4.26/build is incomplete or missing!

I think it wants the kernel source, how exactly do I install that?

Posted by roberts on Nov. 08 2006,02:23

You are not going to get a development environment in a 50MB distro. You can download extenions to do this.
However, you maybe in luck. From this < site > you might use the Prism2 GUI from the DSLpanel.
Note, if you are using WEP enter as colon separated pairs, i.e., 99:99:99...

Also, using ndiswrapper with the appropriate Windows drives would be easier than compiling drivers. But try the Prism2 GUI first.

Posted by KeatonTech on Nov. 08 2006,20:06

Well, I tried the prism2 gui with the colons and it didn't help, I tried wlan0, wlan1, pcmcia0, and pcmcia1, nothing worked. I downloaded the windows driver, and it has 3 sys files, 1 inf file, and 4 bin files. The tutorial I found for ndiswrapper only used 2 files. I guess i'll just try trial and error.