On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 08:40:55PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: | I know this card is supported under Linux, and debian, but... | | What is involved in getting this card found/configured under Sarge? | Specifically under the new net install cdrom? | | A lady friend is seriously considering letting me move her off of windos | and onto debian. The hangup is this wifi card. I don't ant to spend all | day trying to get this piece of hardware working, unless I absolutely | have to.
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz That card is a prism2-based card. That means you need either the hostap or linux-wlan-ng drivers. I don't know as much about hostap because it doesn't support USB, which is the type of prism2 device I have. As for linux-wlan-ng, you either need a 2.4 kernel or you need to build a 0.2.1 prelease version of the drivers. Binary packages for the 2.4 kernels are available in debian, and Vineet Kumar has created an unofficial binary package for some 2.6 kernels (URL in the list archives). After loading the driver (module prism2_pci for linux-wlan-ng) you need to configure the interface with the parameters for associating with the access point. This could be as simple as putting the following in /etc/network/interfaces : iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless_mode managed wireless_essid foo wireless_enc on wlan_ng_key0 xx:xx:xx:xx:xx I don't know if the net install cd will have that driver and the user tools available. The installation may just be easier with a cabled network card and then set up the wireless afterwards. Or you may find it helpful to put the card in your machine first so you can figure out how to make it work before doing the install in her machine. HTH, -D -- "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver." --Daniel Pead www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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