usb wifi dongle

[Eric Tanguy]

Le ven 10/09/2004 à 04:22, Ian D. Stewart a écrit :
> On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 09:20, eric tanguy wrote:
> > In a week i will obtain a usb wifi dongle based on Prism GT (ISL3890). Is
> > this hardware supported by kernel modules or do i have to install extra
> > modules ??
> 
> Eric,
> 
> The Prism chipset is supported by the linux-wlan-ng project
> (http://www.linux-wlan.org).  There is an RPM based on linux-wlan-ng
> 1.21-pre14 available for Fedore Core 1 at
> http://prism2.unixguru.raleigh.nc.us/v21-fc1-index.html.
> 
> If you are running Fedora Core 2, you will need to build from source. 
> You can get the latest source from
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/.  I would recommend going
> with linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20 in order to get relatively reliable
> support for the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Once you've downloaded the source, if you follow the instructions in the
> howto at http://www.siliconvalleyccie.com/linux-hn/wmp11-linux.htm you
> should be good to go.
> 
> There is one caveat however.  When you run 'make config' when building
> linux-wlan-ng, it tests to ensure that you have the linux kernel source
> (and not just the headers) installed.  It does this by checking for
> version.h in the linux source directory that was specified earlier in
> the configuration process (it defaults to /usr/src/linux). 
> Unfortunately, this file is only generated when module versioning is
> enabled (it is disabled by default, as it still flagged as
> 'experimental'), so before you can build linux-wlan-ng, you must first
> enable module versioning in the module.
> 
> This is the process that I followed to get my WMP11 working under Linux,
> and I haven't had any problems yet.
> 
> 
> Ian
> 
Thank you for your answer i hope this will help me when i will have my
dongle. I'm not sure to well understand how to enable module versioning
? In the kernel ? i have to rebuild a kenel ?
Eric

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