Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-16 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 16 April 2006 04:43 pm, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Chris Lale wrote: > > tom arnall wrote: > >> i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. > >> i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card > >> is a d-lin

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-16 Thread tom arnall
yes! thanks all of your for your help and psychological support. for what it's worth, the way points of the my experience: the error: include/asm/processor.h:87: error: array type has incomplete element type disappeared after i upgraded to the current stable kernel: '2.6.16.4'.

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Chris Lale wrote: tom arnall wrote: i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for dealing with this technology. Look

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-15 Thread Chris Lale
tom arnall wrote: i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for dealing with this technology. Look at http

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-15 Thread Paul Scott
tom arnall wrote: I haven't made much headway with this, other than there does seem to be a change between the sarge gcc and the etch / sid gcc in this area. Since I'm running sarge I can't immediately try it myself. One idea though -- given the level of support and Debian-friendliness I've fou

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-14 Thread tom arnall
> > I haven't made much headway with this, other than there does seem to be > a change between the sarge gcc and the etch / sid gcc in this area. > > Since I'm running sarge I can't immediately try it myself. > > One idea though -- given the level of support and Debian-friendliness > I've found fr

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher wrote: --- tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware revision of your particular card. For your card there appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) i

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > > driver for your wireless card depends on the > hardware > > revision of your particular card. For your card > there > > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is > reported > > to have a work

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported > to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this > link to help you figu

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported > to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this > link to help you figur

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported > to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this > link to help you figur

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
i did some more research and it turns out that the midwifi driver will work with the D-link G650-B4. but when i tried compiling the driver (module?) i got the same error messages which i got trying to compile the host ap driver. > Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for y

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
my card has 'B4' on the back. rest inline. thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca > > Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is report

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message -From: tom arnall Date: > Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:02 pmSubject: trouble > getting my wireless stuff to workTo: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> i am a linux newbie > having trouble getting my wirel

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-11 Thread David Parker
- Original Message -From: tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:02 pmSubject: trouble getting my wireless stuff to workTo: debian-user@lists.debian.org> i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to > work. i am > running debi

trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-11 Thread tom arnall
i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for dealing with this technology. thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca -- To