Rodney D. Myers wrote:
I've been searching for my wifi modules, and they all seem to be geared towards the 2.4.* series of kernel's.
doing an "apt-cache search wlan" shows wlan*2.4.*
The card was "found' and identified in the net install, but I used the
built-in lan card to install. will I need the source to build into
2.6.3?
Find your wireless card:
Dolphin:~# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)
Dolphin:~# For your wireless card:
Dolphin:~# lspci -s 00:0e.0 -v -v
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
Subsystem: Gateway 2000: Unknown device 7056
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping-
SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort-
>SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 80 (2500ns min, 2500ns max), Cache Line Size: 0x08 (32 bytes)
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 1080
Region 1: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-Dolphin:~#
This will serve to identify (better than the box it came in) your card. Then, and only then, someone might be able to tell you which driver to use.
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