Installing pcmcia card. .

[Guest pipplo]

Ok, couldn't decide whether this belonged in laptops or hardware, so feel free to move it mods:-D

 

 

 

Ok here we go, so my wireless card came in today. I have no idea what brand it is, it was the one from the company that made my laptop. but it did come with some linux drivers...but i'm confused as how to install them, I'm not sure if i have all the requirements...so here we go

 

This is from the install file included in the source

 

 

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A. Environment

- Our software environment of system as below:

OS: Linux kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686

Distribution: RedHat 7.1

PCMCIA support: kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.24-2

Wireless tools: wireless-tools-21-1

 

B. Environment setup

- Linux kernel source:

In order for the applications to run you have to

enable CONFIG_NET_RADIO in the kernel.

 

1. In /usr/src/linux (or linux-2.4)

# make menuconfig

Select Network Device Support

|--->Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)

|--->Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)

2. # make dep

 

- kernel-pcmcia-cs:

You should install the kernel-pcmcia-cs source in

your system.

 

1. Unpackage the source package in the path

/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

# tar zxvf kernel-pcmcia-cs-x.x.xx.tar.gz

 

2. In folder(kernel-pcmcia-cs-x.x.xx) run

# make clean

# make config(answer the question)

# make all

# make install

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Now I'm wondering if 9.0 comes with what I need or if I'll have to install some of this stuff? it tells me after this to run

 

make pcmcia

 

but when i do that, just to see if it worked without installing other things it gives me the error:

 

which: no modprobe in (/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin)

make[1]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

Kernel Version Running 2.4.19-16mdk

Kernel Source Directory Not Found. Please give path :

 

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So i'm guessing I need to install the kernel sources first...

 

 

Anyway someone wanna help me out with this, maybe give me som ehints to go in the right direction? thanks in advance guys. Sorry for the questions I'm just so un accustomed to this still....I don't know why it's so difficult for me :?

[Guest dturley]

install the pcmcia-cs and wireless-tools rpms

with mandrake you usually don't need to compile anything, especially the kernal

 

then insert your wireless card and see what happens. post errors and the output of cardctl ident

 

then post back