usb wifi dongle

[Eric Tanguy]

Le ven 10/09/2004 à 09:59, PFJ a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Pre21 is working fine from here.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> I found the instructions inside of the linux-wlan-ng package far more
> useful. I'd also recommend getting hold of a copy of airsnort from
> sourceforge.
> 
> > > 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). 
> 
> Actually, there are a couple more than that.
> 
> To get around the one above, when it asks for the directory, type
> 
> /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/build
> 
> The second is that you will need to mkdir a directory for the build
> process. When the compile fails, you will see where the directory being
> looked for should be (from memory /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/build/.
> tmp_make - it's certainly something like that)
> 
> The third is only to compile the module you need. If you're using a USB
> dongle, only bother with the usb module - you don't need the rest.
> 
> The fourth is to not bother with using neat, ifup or any other type of
> config - they won't work as expected (they were telling me all sorts of
> garbage yesterday). You should only start or restart the dongle using /
> etc/init.d/wlan start|stop|restart and then connect by hand
> 
> (okay this last way may be down to my system using rawhide)
> 
> Other than that, it's fine with the MA111 Prism2 dongle.
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> No. You don't need to rebuild the kernel. Install the kernel-sourcecode
> from yum and you'll be fine.
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
Thank you for your informations, i will try it soon. But how to
configure the security for the link ?
Eric

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