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Topic: Prism 3/ DWL-520 E1, Can it be used with hd install of DSL?

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ke4nt1

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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,02:42

My apologies..

Initially scanning the document , and recognizing the dwl-520 chipset name,
I thought you were in hog heaven! Lots of 520's in service in DSL!

But after seeing your response, and 'reading' the document..
I understand your challenge.

There is the kernelsources.dsl for the /usr/local/src you'll need.
and the gcc1.dsl, although I have better success by simply apt-getting
gcc, g++, and make from the unstable repository.
That should remove any (tcc) issues.

73
ke4nt

zmef420

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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,03:13

nope. tried ndis. the chip doesn't have firmware so it's you can't load a driver with out firmware, i guess.
i thought the kernel dsl would come in handy

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 13 2005,04:52

I'm too lazy to read all of the docs, but could this work:

1) Boot up into MSWindows and firmware gets loaded.
2) Insert DSL CD into tray and close.
3) Exit Windows with "Restart" instead of "Shutdown"

Maybe then the firmware will still be loaded up if you do a warm reboot instead of a cold boot.

If this is true you could also configure a dual-boot setup on the hard drive, but you would need to briefly boot up Windows and restart every time that you wanted to use Linux.

zmef420

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Posted: Jan. 14 2005,04:43

i am gonna try it right now...

nope didn't work. good idear though.

im going to try to run dsl in windows and see what happens. probably won't work on this old p2 233 with 32 megs o'ram.
we'll see

zmef420
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Posted: Jan. 15 2005,02:10

well, running embedded inside windows doesn't work fo me. not enough ram or cpu. i went ahead and tried building the kernel. i got all the files, but when i try to build the hostap-driver module i get the message "can't build kernel with non 2.6 source? do i ave to run DSL .8 to use the kernel dsl? I'm lost.

might just have to get another pci card, but i hate to be a quiter. won't learn a dang thing that way.

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