newb... trying to get wireless card recognized

[Guest toyarmy]

i did a brief scan of previous threads and found nothing that covered what i havnt myself.

ive gotten rid of the preinstalled ndiswrapper.

i dl'd ndiswrapper.

i dl'd wireless_tools.

i even got build-essentials.

but im getting hung up in tar.gz installs.

 

the "./configure" command returns "no such file or directory" and "make" gets "command not found.

 

any help would be appreciated. thank you.

[arctic]

Wecome :)

 

Please post the complete output of your "./configure" command. The last line alone doesn't help us much without the corresponding information of the previous lines.

[Guest toyarmy]

sorry. thank you for welcoming me. ill do my best to give the information requested. i cd into wireless_tools.28/

so heres where we are...

 

[root@localhost wireless_tools.28]# ./configure

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

 

hope that helps?

[judland]

Was there any particular reason why you couldn't download and install Ndiswrapper via Mandriva's MCC (ie. URPMI)?

 

I'm asking because I recently had to get a wireless LAN USB device installed for a friend. I simply installed Ndiswrapper via MCC, got his MS-Windows driver CD, plugged in the wireless device and used MCC to use Ndiswrapper to install the driver from the CD.

 

I had to reboot the PC (for some strange reason), but after that all was working just fine. I never had to deal with ./configure at all.

[scarecrow]

Add to the above the fact that the ./configure script should not be run as root!

Further, the "wireless_tools.28" package you have downloaded includes a text file named INSTALL, which you obviously did not read. To compile your modules for that package, you should run just

make

and then

su -c "make install"

for installing the driver.

But since the above things already exist as Mandriva RPM's, you shouldn't mess too much with sources and binary tarballs- especially since you're not familiar with them yet...

Edited September 17, 2006 by scarecrow

[ianw1974]

I use ndiswrapper with Mandy, and all you have to do is this:

 

urpmi ndiswrapper

 

The best thing to do if you want a package, and not sure if it's available, is to search the repository, like this:

 

urpmf --name ndiswrapper

 

this would show that ndiswrapper exists, and then you can use the first command I showed to install it.