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klasact

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Posted: May 04 2006,17:48

I am getting nowhere with this. Make Dep continues to give me the line shown in my May 02 post. Also Please check to verify that you sent me the correct typescript showing all commands you used to get to make all. I have another question for a different area. When i enter the command ndiswrapper -m i get the message [modprobe config already contains an alias directive]. How do i find out what this directive is and then remove it.

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Posted: May 04 2006,20:42

Piccolo "The Return".
Note the difference between two things:
-We have been attempting build a driver from sources. The driver is native Linux.
-Ndiswrapper is a program to be able use a native Windows driver on Linux.

Therefore Ndiswrapper is other strategy. I do not know about Ndiswrapper then I can't help you about that topic.
More info here: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

I checked to verify and the information from typescript was really all. We both have been using exactly the same tools over the same targets. Still the DSL version is the same. (DSL 2.3 version).
Extracting from typescript file only the lines that have the commands used, results:

dsl@box cd /home/dsl
dsl@box:~$ bzip2 -dc linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
dsl@box:~$ cd linux
dsl@box:~/linux$ make config
dsl@box:~/linux$ make dep
dsl@box:~/linux$ cd /home/dsl
dsl@box:~$ tar zxvf linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1.tar.gz
dsl@box:~$ cd /home/dsl/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1
dsl@box:~/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1$ make config
dsl@box:~/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1$ make all

The make dep command fails because not found the /home/dsl/linux/scripts/mkdep.c file. Make sure if is present. That file is decompressed by "bzip2 -dc linux-2.4.17.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -" command then unavoidably it would have to be.
I recommend you, to delete the /home/dsl/linux and /home/dsl/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.14-pre1 directories and to repeat all again.

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klasact

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Posted: May 11 2006,19:14

I was able to get the linksys adapter to work in ver 2.4rc2 of DSL. Kudos for all your help! Now then, i am unable to save the connection at shutdown so it is available the next time i boot up. The command iwconfig shows all the new and necessary parameters for wlan0 but how do i save this at shutdown? Your comments appreciated no doubt. Thanks

piccolo

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Posted: May 11 2006,20:18

WOW! I thought you surrendered but fortunately was not so. Gooood!
Now your question is easy. Is a question present in the FAQ:
How can I enter and save my static IP settings?
Your card is not currently listed in Working Wireless Cards then you could send your feedback by sending a message to user Green, so your effort will be useful for others.

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tomv

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Posted: May 25 2006,16:44

If you can post all the steps you used to get this to work, it would be very helpful. I have a Linksys WUSB11 Ver 2.6 which uses Altmel instead of Prism chipset - I need to download everything I need and burn it to a CD to copy it over to the laptop, so I want to get everything together first. I have plenty of disk space on the laptop and I've done a non-frugal install, so I'm only using 10 of my 32 megs of RAM. (Toshiba Tecra 530 takes propriatary RAM - my 64M chip died and replacing it is expensive. DSL and its low memory footprint is a godsend.)

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