Re: /opt/kernel, depmod

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:09:49 GMT, 
"Alex Kirk" <alex@schnarff.com> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 20030901210955.14995.qmail@schnarff.com>:

> >> Secondly, I'm having a *lot* of trouble getting my D-Link DWL-520
> >> wirless NIC (Prism 2.5 chipset) to work under Debian. 
> > 
> > .._sure_?  D-Link DWL-520 is a nice pussycat with full support for
> > the Prism 2.5, D-Link DWL-520+ sounds more like your carcassy
> > experience.
> 
> Super sure -- I just cracked the box and looked on the chip itself.
> It's a DWL-520 Rev. A2. 
> 
> > ..that _+_ is "ze big deal", it has TI's acx-100 chip, and _not_ 
> > the nice Prism.  There _is_ hope: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Interestingly enough, when I went over to the D-Link web site again to
> super-duper double check the chipset, I looked again at their FAQs,
> and noticed that there appear to be unsupported Linux drivers. For the
> benefit of anyone reading the archives down the road, the links are: 
> 
> http://support.dlink.com/Products/view.asp?productid=DWL-520 (D-Link's
> page) ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/ (The driver itself) 
> 
> Hopefully that'll solve that problem. Meanwhile, any
> thoughts/suggestions on where to learn about the contents of
> /opt/kernel? 

..huh?  /opt/kernel"??? 

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