I'm new to Debian and wireless networking at the same time. I've successfully installed Woody on my laptop, but I have yet to get the wlan-ng drivers to build. (Or build and install a kernel, for that matter -- something I consider routine on RH.) I'm hoping I'll have things sorted out by tomorrow night when I head out to the coffee house with my new WPC11v3. I doubt anyone at the coffee house knows their SSID or anything like that. Will I need any special tools to discover these things, or will it "just work" the way it apparently does in Windows?
Here's a rundown of the problems I'm having: I tried using make-kpkg kernel-image. The resulting .deb contained the kernel but no modules. On subsequent attempts (with a freshly untarred source tree) I used the standard make dep/make clean/make modules/make modules_install/make install. I still didn't get any modules. I tried again, changing a few modules and being extra careful with my configuration this time, and now it won't build at all; something about undefined symbols. I should have written down exactly what it was, but building a kernel takes a couple hours on my laptop (P166/48MB) so I'm not going to do it again right now. I'm using gcc-2.95. Should I install 3.x? How do I do that on Debian? My attempts at upgrading anything have so far resulted in disaster... I then tried building linux-wlan-ng against kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4, but I get a warning from make config that the headers are for "kernel version ." and the resulting module contains no version info and will not load even with -f. I guess you need an actual configured kernel tree to build the wlan drivers. Where do I get the source for -bf2.4? apt-get isn't listing it among the candidates for kernel-source. Thanks, Krum -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
