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simba 10-06-2003 06:44 AM

Wlan card recognized in Knoppix, not in redhat
 
I'm a newbie.

When booting with a knoppix or Suse Live CD, my ATMEL Pcmcia card is recognized and operational.

However after installing RedHat 9, the card is not detected.

Is there a simple way to copy the driver from knoppix to RH. And please, no answers like "recompile the RH kernel with the knoppix kernel".

akaBeaVis 10-06-2003 12:10 PM

While you certainly should identify which module knoppix and suse are using, I would not bother trying to copy it over to your redhat partition and then attempting to load it. It most likely will refuse to load. This is because the kernel versions will be different and quite possibly the compiler used to build the module also.

Once identified, go to the atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net site and download the latest version of the source code, then compile it on your machine locally while running redhat. Read the readme it should get you started. Answer the setup script's questions to build the module that you identified earlier. You'll need the kernel-source rpm installed to compile this.

I should note here that what I'm describing is you compiling a small driver module for your card, this is not compiling the kernel.


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