On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:56:03 -0600 "Teilhard Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > >> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. > >> Only > >> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go > >> with > >> it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit > >> and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver > >> module for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I do > >> not know what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able to > >> compile. I tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and it > >> failed. Could you help? > >> > >> Teilhard. > > > > What is the chipset used by your wireless card? You can find this info by > > looking at the output of "lspci -v" command. Most likely you need to use > > module-assistant to compile drivers for your wireless cards. > > I didn't use that command, but I know that my wireless nic's chip is Atmel. > Do I need module-assistant? Where do I find it? How do I use it? The driver (at76c50x) is apparently in 2.6 kernels (no m-a necessary). You'll need firmware; see the atmel-firmware (in non-free) package. Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
