wireless driver?


Forum: Laptops
Topic: wireless driver?
started by: tjwoosta

Posted by tjwoosta on Sep. 25 2008,20:05
i made a bootable usb flash drive with damnsmalllinux ( i plan to use it mainly on my laptop)

the problem is that i cant get wireless (rtl8187b) or ethernet (rtl8101e) to work

on previous installs of DSL (with different hardware) the ethernet worked no problem on a fresh install

but whatever, im not really concerned about ethernet, i just want internet working

so i have a wireless driver for my wifi card that works perfectly on ubuntu but i have no idea if it will work on dsl

and to make things worse, i have no ethernet, so i cant download the drivers

my only option was to put the drivers on a cd-r

but now i have no idea how to mount my dvd-drive

please help me

Posted by curaga on Sep. 26 2008,10:39
Your dvd-drive is one of /dev/hdX. Are you using DSL 4.x? In there you can mount either from the command line or by right-clicking any icon.

Are the drivers you mentioned Windows drivers (for ndiswrapper) or something else?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 26 2008,17:27
You might need to compile it: < http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloa....n=false > (grab the compile-3.3.5.uci package from mydsl to build it)

For wireless, you'll probably need to use ndiswrapper.  The native drivers (realtek's or kernel's) look like they are kernel 2.6 only.

Posted by Juanito on Sep. 27 2008,07:44
My dvd shows as /dev/scd1 and is mounted by dsl-3.x as cdrom  i.e. click on the mount tool "cdrom" to mount it. My cd drives (scsi) show as /dev/sr1 and /dev/sr2 and are mounted by dsl-3.x as cdrom1 and cdrom2
Posted by WDef on Sep. 27 2008,09:14
Code Sample
You might need to compile it: http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloa....n=false (grab the compile-3.3.5.uci package from mydsl to build it)


Just a reminder that kernel modules should be compiled with the same version of gcc that the running kernel was compiled with (normally gcc 2.95 for dsl's shipped 2.4.31 kernel).

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 27 2008,21:14
Right, good reminder :P
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