luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) the driver is a 48mb exe and its for the dell wireless wlan 1370 mini-pci card which in windows is the broadcom,im downloading it on linux now hopfully this will help :) also i did the ifconfig and the only things that show up are eth0 and lo Edited February 6, 2006 by luke9511 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 OK, hopefully you'll be able to extract the exe file without requiring Windows to do it. Try opening with ark once you've downloaded. Once you've started to configure and install ndiswrapper, wlan0 should appear as a device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) edit:i got the install part figured out for the most part but when i do the make command it gives me a error about the kernel or something i will have to take a screenshot Edited February 6, 2006 by luke9511 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 ok heres the screenshot hope it helps :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 You need to install your kernel-source. At the prompt type: urpmi kernel-source you'll get a list of about 3 kernel sources to install. Don't install the stripped or the other one, just install the one something like kernel-source.2.6.12.12 or along those lines. The run the make command after this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 ok heres what i got,i guess i should just choose yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) ok heres what i got,i guess i should just choose yes You guessed wrong (urpmi too, most likely because the urpmi repositories are either incomplete, or outdated, or finally both of the above...). Just update them ( say via easyurpmi ) before attempting anything! kernel-source 2.4.27-something is totally irrelevant to your running kernel, just install the kernel-source package that matches your running kernel. Edited February 6, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 oops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 If you chose yes, remove the existing kernel source using: urpme kernel-source then, click easy-urpmi at the top of the page, and choose all options add them all, and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Note, you can check the version of your current running kernel with uname -a, the kernel source you install needs to match this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 ok i did choose yes but i removed it,now my kernel version is 2.6.8.1 and where do i find easy-urpmi? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 Right at the top of this page is a link to click for easy-urpmi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 i saw something that said contrib,now i got about 6 cds with the word contrib on them and i got 2 cds with updates i dont know what the updates are and i dont know what those contribs are for so yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 6, 2006 Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 I'm not sure I follow what you mean. Run this command on your machine: [root@europa ian]# urpmq --list-media Installation Free DVD (cdrom1) plf-free plf-nonfree updates main contrib jpackage as you can see from the above, this is the media I have configured for my machine. Everything, except the "Installation Free DVD" is added using the easy-urpmi link at the top of this page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke9511 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2006 sorry im having some small keyboard problems,i forgot to put that i have a burned copy of mandrake 10.1 official and it came with some other cds 2 with updates and i dont know what the other 6 are for,all i know is that they say contrib on them,also i did that command and it shows installation cd 1,installation 2 and installation cd 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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