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Posted: Jan. 02 2006,17:31 QUOTE
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Avinux, I'm using Acer Aspire 3003NLCi...

Put Resource CD in ... mount /dev/cdrom...

good luck :D

I'm using an acer apire 3003MLMI and it it didin't come with any software other than a windows restore cd

you mean I have to put a cd into the drive while one is already inside it

luck isn't something I usually have
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Posted: Jan. 03 2006,05:04 QUOTE
You can download drivers from this website. You need 2 files for WLAN: bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys
If you use option: dsl toram, image files will be copied to RAM. After booting, you can take DSL CD out and put whatever CD in.

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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,23:02 QUOTE
first u should try and find the chip set in ur wireless, you can do this with the lspci command at the terminal. just because you buy a dlink or whatever doesn't mean anything, chipset's the thing.
google ndiswrapper and u'll get a sourceforge url that has a good write up on wireless- that is if u have a laptop. they also have drivers for many cards. good luck.
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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,07:40 QUOTE
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If you use option: dsl toram, image files will be copied to RAM. After booting, you can take DSL CD out and put whatever CD in.

thanks you have been a great help

and I never knew about copying image files into ram, really interesting

I will keep you up to date on what happens  :)
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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,09:53 QUOTE
ok so I got the driver files, now

I put them into "home/dsl/" while DSL was running on my ram

I saved it to the filetool and then I thought something

I need to get these files saved onto DSL running on the cd not on my ram where they will be deleted

so when I ran DSL from the cd and then mounted my hardrive and tried to copy the files using emelfm; on my mounted hardrive they had a value (kb), but when I copied them over they had no value (0 kb) (is it possible that it doesn't want to let me copy it because DSL was running on a cd-r)

so that isn't really helping me

plus even when I had it running on ram the ndiswrapper said that I couldn't connect (it may have been because of my "sign on to aol before you can use the internet" wireless router)

any help would be great (including the small details that I gave you in parehntecies after each paragraph like this one LOL)
smilie)

thanks
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