just installed Fedora Core 4 and with WUSB11 ver 2.6 (atmel chipset) i am going to get nothing internet wise until this gets better.

looked around a bit but couldn't find anything...

please keep in my mind i will not have the internet to download anything from linux, i will have to download it in windows copy to usb pen drive and then run from there

any help is greatly appreciated.

If this card does have an atmel chipset, there are native linux drivers here.


If you are dual booting the computer, Linux reads NTFS partitions just fine, so you could dispense with the usb drive by just mounting the NTFS partition.

this is the error message i recieved

[root@localhost atmelwlandriver]# make usb buildonly=debug
Building usbvnetr
Debug
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Adam/atmelwlandriver/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/debug'
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: Entering an unknown directorymake: Leaving an unknown directorymake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Adam/atmelwlandriver/atmelwlandriver/objs/usbvnetr/debug'
make: *** [usbvnetr] Error 2

any easy fixes?

Well, that suggests that that directory doesn't exist. Check and see what is in /lib/modules to be sure (it could be a permissions issue). Also double check to make sure that your kernel source code is installed and that you are actually running the 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 kernel.

alright i don't have the kernel souce installled

where do i find it? i have tried looking on the CD's and i haven't been able to come up with one.

is there a place online that i can download it?

If it isn't on your CD set, then it should be available from the Fedora website. You're looking for a file with your kernel name and ending in .src.rpm. You'll install it as you would any other RPM file.

tried to install it, and it popped up with this dialog.

i was logged in as root and opened up the directory off of my usb key pen drive (as i planned on doing a similar install on another computer) and double clicked on it

this is what was given

Source RPM

The file "/media/LEXAR_MEDIA/kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm" is a source RPM which cannot be installed with system-config-packages.

Hm. I'm guessing there may be a permissions problem. You might try installing the rpm from the console and see if it either installs or gives you a more informative error message. I think the command would be (as root):

rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.src.rpm

it didn't want to run gave me an error message

however i did install the kernel-devel basically what you use instead of that src.rpm because that is acutally more of a patch to the kernel or soemthing...

anyways

i am still getting the same error message.

To be honest, I don't know why Fedora won't allow you to install the source code package. I don't like to suggest this, but you might want to ask this question in the Fedora forum. I just don't have enough experience with Fedora to make an intelligent suggestion about what to do next.

what i might do is reinstall fedora and select as many developer options as i can

it might put those directories in

its an easy install anyways

besides i need to repartition because the swap partition is corrupted

OK reinstalled fc4 and i installed the berelios drivers

installed alright
i did the following

iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid [name of network]
iwconfig channel 6
iwconfig key [my wep key]
dhclient
[scrolls a buncha stuff i see i now have an ip address]
i open up firefox go to google.com works
i go to slashdot.org works
open up gaim and no go

tried going to a different website and no go
and the rhn indicator which was green before is now back to gray

so its just a tease....

any suggestions?

also my device is assigned wlan0 and i can't configure fc4 to boot 'er automatically
i don't mind having to do all that work at all but i will still like some sort of solution


thinking back on it i didn't do the firmware change liek the tutorial said and i didn't do modprobes either....coudl that be the root of my problem?

[QUOTEi open up firefox go to google.com works
i go to slashdot.org works
open up gaim and no go

tried going to a different website and no go
and the rhn indicator which was green before is now back to gray[/QUOTE]

Hmm. That is kind of odd that firefox stops working after gaim doesn't work. Is this consistent? You also might want to check your ifconfig and iwconfig after it stops working and see if there are any changes.

The gaim problem might be firewall related as well. Have a look and see if your firewall allows gaim traffic.

I'd have a look in your /etc/modprobe.conf file and see if there is an assignment of the berelios module to wlan0. If it is there, change the wlan0 to eth1 or some other device FC does recognize. For the life of me, I have no idea why Red Hat chose to ignore the wlanX designation in Fedora. However, that is just one of several wireless-unfriendly things Red Hat has done with Fedora. You could also write a script that has all the configuration commands in it and either run it when you need the card or set it up to run at boot time.

I was under the impression that you weren't getting that far and that this was an issue with compiling the module.

I can't get make to run. I end up getting:

And this.....

This last one is the more serious and causing the compile to stop. Have you installed the correct source code? Have you read through the install instructions and are following them?