[Support needed] Setting up Wireless pcmcia card in Mandrake 10.1

Heathen

desperatly need help

[OS] Linux Mandrake 10.1

[Machine] Packard bell laptop, intel 1.3ghz, 20GB hd, 256mb ram

[Network Card] Air link 101, 108mbps super G [AWLC4030] (wireless)

ok fist off and most importantly. i am very very new too Linux..
but really want to get too know it. and i need my network card too work so i can hook up too my home network and browse the net through linux too..

ok i have a copy of the drivers for windows on this card, and it does work when i boot in win xp, but i cant figure out how too compile it to work for mandrake...

can anyone please help me get this os online?? is there a way to change the drivers for windows too work with linux?

please if anyone know what i need to do can you explain it as simple as possable cos im still very uncomfortable with this OS just yet..

thanks

Macker :eek:

flamegrill

Hi there,

Go to: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Have a read, download it and then go online

Paul

Heathen

Thanks for the reply,

now for the really n00b questions...

can you give me a step by step of what i need to do? i downloaded the files, but when i put them on mandrake, i cant open them, or when i do open them they open in text editors... some files appear to be uncompiled, if they need to be compiled how do i do that.. please understand im completely new to linux..

I dont understand all this stuff...

Go to source-directory and do
make distclean(this works fine.. i get NO errors)


As root run
make (i get errors) - Cant find kernal source... give path too kernal sources with KSRC=<path>


and then
make install (i get errors) - Cant find kernal source... give path too kernal sources with KSRC=<path>

i ran the above in Konsole... this right?

again im really sorry for my ignorance, but asking questions is how i'll learn

thanks

nadir

you probably have to configure it first,

./configure

make sure your correct kernel sources symlink points to /usr/src/linux
so like I have

nadir@Mizuho ~ $ ls -l /usr/src/
total 72
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   24 Jul 23 12:19 linux -> /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.11
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 4096 May  9  2004 linux-2.4.22-gentoo-r7
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4096 Mar 10  2005 linux-2.4.28-gentoo-r8
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 May  9  2004 linux-2.6.0-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 May  9  2004 linux-2.6.0-test8
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 May  9  2004 linux-2.6.1-gentoo
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 May  9  2004 linux-2.6.1-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4096 Apr 16 16:16 linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jun 29 21:48 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4096 Apr  7 22:46 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jul  1 22:17 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jun  5 17:00 linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r9
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4096 Jul 27 20:02 linux-2.6.11.11
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jul  3 03:01 linux-2.6.11.12
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Aug 31 18:24 linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r9
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4096 Jul  4 01:00 linux-2.6.12.2
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Aug 28 23:45 linux-2.6.12.5
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4096 May 15  2004 linux-2.6.2-gentoo-r1
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4096 Mar  9  2005 linux-2.6.7-gentoo
/usr/src/linux-2.6.0-gentoo

you can use ln to make a link and unlink to remove it.

and also ditch mandrake and learn linux properly, use gentoo or arch linux ndiswrapper is pretty difficult to get working properly, if it works at all, it takes alot of pissing around, setting up wep or whatever. I got it working after about a 6 hour marathon with wpa and wep or whatever its called. It works but disconnects from time to time which is a real pain, and it doesnt seem to have the same range as cards ive seen on laptops running windows

Snowbat

You'll find kernel-source-2.6-2.6.8.1-12mdk.i586.rpm on CD3 of Mandrake 10.1 - use your package manager to install that and then try again.

(Edit: ndiswrapper-0.9-1mdk.i586.rpm is also on CD3 if you want to use Mandrake's packaged version)