Wireless Network driver needed
Dave Smith
dave.smith at tstt.net.tt
Sat May 1 21:34:21 UTC 2004
I've gotten stuck at step one. When I try and use the command lspci -v I
get the error message:
"command not found"
In fact, when I check this in the books that I have I can't find this as
one of the options for "ls". Is there another command that has the same
efftc?
Thanks.
Dave
On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 11:29, duncan brown wrote:
> with the card in, type this:
>
> lspci -v
>
> this'll give you verbose details about your pci devices, find your network
> adapter. what you're looking for is the chipset (not made by linksys)
> described inside, and then head over to the manufacturer of the chip. i
> have a belkin, but the chipset is admtek (who have linux drivers).
>
> now, you'll probably need to compile the kernel module, which should be
> nothing more than unarchiving the .tar.gz/bz2 file, going into the dir and
> type 'make' this should create a .o file which you'll need to copy into
> your wireless modules dir.
>
> /lib/modules/(kernel version here)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
>
> now, just reboot and let kudzu find the module.
>
> i had troubles with fedora and my belkin, since i had a natsemi nic in
> already, which kudzu decided to overwrite. yay for kudzu.
>
> so, it modified my /etc/modules.conf and my
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (which it should have just
> created a new ifcfg-eth1)
>
> so, what you should do is backup the modules.conf and your ifcfg-eth0
> BEFORE rebooting to your /root dir.
>
> now, if you reboot and it does overwrite your files and your old hardwired
> nic isn't listed anymore, then you'll need to do this:
>
> edit the /root/ifcfg-eth0 file and change the interface (eth0) to eth1
> (and if you don't want to use your hardwire nic as your connectoin to the
> internet anymore, remove the GATEWAY= line)
> rename the file to ifcfg-eth1 and copy it to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
>
> now, look at how /root/modules.conf is different from /etc/modules.conf,
> if there's a line in your backup /root/modules.conf, add it to your
> /etc/modules.conf
>
> -d
>
> -+(duncan brown
> -+(duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
> -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net
>
>
> Dave Smith said:
> > Does anyone know where to get a driver for a Linksys PCI Adapter
> > WMP54GS? I've tried the Linksys web site without success and done Google
> > searches to no avail.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Dave Smith
>
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