hi i have managed to get beatrix installed on an old p2 (233mhz) 64mb laptop for anyone who has not heard of beatrix it is a hybrid of debian ubuntu and knoppix
www.watsky.net
so far i have upgraded the kernel to fix a previous hotplug issue and now i need to get my wlan adaptor functioning to get internet access the hardware in question is a usb wlan adaptor serial F5D7050 there is also a second serial which somone may find useful for the chipset used K75F5D7050A
the distro does not detect my usb wlan via lsusb so i assumed i needed to look for ways of making it detected i found this.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ht=belkin+wlan because i have a ubuntu kernel driving it i would assume that these instructions would be valid for mine.
the instructions are not very clear so i am not too sure what i am supposed to do
Quote:
cd /usr/src
tar xvzf at76c503a.tar.gz
cd modules/at76c503a
debian/rules binary-modules KVERS=2.6.10-5-k7
cd ..
dpkg -i <modulename.deb>
depmod -a
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cd modules/at76c503a
debian/rules binary-modules KVERS=2.6.10-5-k7
this section does not make much sence i assume it means edit that line
i am at a loss to what the dpkg -i would mean as it only installes .deb files and there are none in the folder
i assumend that i was required to run the make command to make the file so i did and got this message
Code:
netsurf@beatrix:/usr/src/modules/at76c503a$ sudo make
mkdir -p .tmp_versions
cp /lib/modules/2.6.12-4-386/build/.tmp_versions/*.mod /usr/src/modules/at76c503a/.tmp_versions
cp: cannot stat `/lib/modules/2.6.12-4-386/build/.tmp_versions/*.mod': No such file or directory
make: [modules] Error 1 (ignored)
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-4-386/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/at76c503a MODVERDIR=/usr/src/modules/at76c503a/.tmp_versions \
EXTRA_CFLAGS="" modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.12-4-386/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
netsurf@beatrix:/usr/src/modules/at76c503a$
there must be something missing as even if i create build/.tmp_versions (the build dir did not exist) it still fails i have the 2.6.12-4 headers and the 2.6.12-4-386 installed too is there something else that i need in order for this to work??
i hope someone can help cheers
