cisco aironet/mandrake 9.2 intalling

svnativi · 10-19-2004, 11:15 AM

Thank you in advance for your replies...I'm new to this and don't know where to start with drivers. I have downloaded the drivers for this wireless adapter it saved as download.cgi off of the cisco website thinking that it would be a tar.gz file. I don't know what the next step is thanks for the help.

darkleaf · 10-19-2004, 11:36 AM

Did the site say it was a .tar.gz file? Cause it seems you downloaded the linking page/script to the file now. Are you sure it's right?

svnativi · 10-19-2004, 12:07 PM

Yes you were right as you can see I need all the help I can get now I have the tar.gz file

darkleaf · 10-19-2004, 12:24 PM

Now let's just go on with installing it

Open a terminal emulator. For mandrake with kde that's Konsole. Now go to the directory in which you downloaded the file with the cd command.

Code:

cd /path/to/file

If you went wrong you can use cd .. to go back one directory, cd ~ to go back to your /home directory.

Now extract the archive:

Code:

tar -zxvf file.tar.gz

Go into the directory that was made. Here I'll give a complete list of what can happen but some steps might be not needed but you'll notice cause you get an error about a file that doesn't exist then.

I think this one might be not needed:

Code:

./configure

Then make yourself root:

Code:

su -

Now run the command that builds and install the drivers:

Code:

make

Wait till it's finished then:

Code:

make install

After this the driver is finished. You probably have to insert it in the kernel now using modprobe but since I don't know the name of the driver I can't tell you the command yet. So post back if you can't figure it out or are finished with this.

svnativi · 10-19-2004, 12:57 PM

I tried the command you gave me it gave me
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.
make: Nothing to be done for 'install'
then I looked at the read me file it said to do sh install that gave me
checking for libsigc++
libsigc++ not installed
checking for gtkmn
libgtkmn not installed

darkleaf · 10-19-2004, 01:29 PM

Ok good then it's just with the sh file. You need to install the libgtkmn package.

svnativi · 10-19-2004, 05:37 PM

now I've been tryin to install this lib for about 4 hrs I don't get that either. I'm sorry I'm a linux retard man.

darkleaf · 10-20-2004, 03:47 AM

I'm not really familiar with mandrakes package management so could you please explain a bit more about what you're doing. What errors you're getting?