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piccolo

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Posted: April 21 2006,14:11

Do not worry, first it is necessary to know if are you running DSL from Live CD or some other install method, thus the help from Forum will be more exact for you.

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Posted: April 21 2006,18:23

Glad to hear from you. I have DSL installed on two 64mb usb thumb drives [a pen drive and a PNY drive] so i can test on one and refine on the other. I also have a live CD w/kernel 2.4.26. Both thumb drives and the cd work fine. I use data ports for my hard drives so I can slide them in and out at will. This enables me to run DSL exclusively on my computer and then go back to a hard drive [windows] when i want to. I have the Linksys driver [ i feel certain it is linux-wlan-ng] installed on both thumb drives but i am stuck at Make Config. I look forward to hearing from you furthur Thanks

piccolo

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Posted: April 21 2006,20:53

1. Boot DSL from your drive for test. (What is that drive exactly... /sda1, /sda2?. Confirm we)

2. Download the following 3 MyDSL packages so:
MyDSL (click icon on desktop) -> System -> gnu-utils.dsl
-> dpkg.dsl
-> gcc1.dsl

3. Download the .tgz file, for example wifidriver.tgz, to /home/dsl directory using Emelfm (Linux equivalent to Windows Explorer). The directory /home/dsl is your user directory. Others are system directories.
If you want can create the folder, for example: wifidrv. (/home/dsl/wifidrv) and to download there the .tgz file. I assume that.

4.Open Up Aterminal and do commands (This unzip the wifidrv.tgz file into the /home/dsl/wifidrv directory)

cd /home/dsl/wifidrv
tar xzvf wifidriver.tgz

3. The compilation and installation from sources frequently are 3 commands:

./configure
make
make install

Anyway read the driver documentation.

Note I: Root permission is required to do "make install" command. Therefore you will do:
sudo su
make install

Note II: Please, post the Readme or Install file. If too long, post it to my email.

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piccolo

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Posted: April 21 2006,21:52

REMARK: Sorry, in 2 step internet connection is required and you have not yet for DSL.

Alternative method:

You can download MyDSL extensions from internet using your web browser running on Windows. Here:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
Chosse a Mirror and browser to: MyDSL -> System
Download the files gnu-utils.dsl, dpkg.dsl and ggc1.dsl to any Windows directory.

Next, boot DSL and using Emelfm mount your Windows partition, browser to directory where you have downloaded the dsl files and transfer it to your /home/dsl directory.

Launch Aterminal and do commands to install packages:

mydsl-load gnu-utils.dsl
mydsl-load dpkg.dsl
mydsl-load gcc1.dsl

Now can follow to 3 step.

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klasact

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Posted: April 22 2006,02:01

Thanks for the follow up----i was confused. I would like to send you the README for the driver install as it is a very good step by step for the driver install and i feel certain you could figure it out,however without a net connection i need to copy it to a floppy and send it via windows.BUT i am unable to find out how to copy to a floppy in linux. Please help.

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