hey all,

i am very new to Debian as i have just come from windows :/ i have just installed a wireless card (tenda w311p) and the cd the came with it is not working, so then i have been looking for the drivers online but i cant find any. please help. thanks dave

The first google search I did turned this up -->http://steveswinsburg.wordpress.com/...-ubuntu-10-04/

You need to learn to use google.

In a kosole, run the command 'lspci' without quotes, and confirm you have the same chip set as the instructions. If not, post the results here.

i went on that website and it did not work.

this is the info from when i typed lspci :

dave@debian:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE/PE DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 82)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL (ICH4/ICH4-L) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DB (ICH4) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
01:0a.0 Network controller: RaLink Device 3060
01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
dave@debian:~$

This may be of help.
http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci

Please explain the steps you took that didn't work.

it was the wrong file type

I have a feeling the site linked to may be out of date as it is from this time last year and the site I linked to suggests that support for your card has now been added to the kernel Debian uses.

still having trouble is there any other way ?

What happens?

it crashed every time i go on to the site

Your operating system crashes if you go to the following site? http://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci