Re: wlan-ng and pcmcia-cs with 2.6 kernels?
Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> writes:
> I have a prism2 based wireless card, and I'm not clear what needs to be
> done to support this when moving to 2.6 on a laptop running sid.
>
> Instructions for building the wlan-ng module is at:
>
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/README
>
> What I'm confused about is:
>
> - it says I need to have a kernel source package, but I'd like to move
> to using kernel-image packages to make upgrading in the future
> faster.[1] Will kernel-headers package satisfy this requirement?
>
> - it says I need pcmcia_cs source code, but isn't that now supported in
> the kernel?
Starting with 2.6.5, the prism drivers are included with the stock
kernel, so you don't need to download anything but the firmware. Before
that, you need to download the module.
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John L. Fjellstad
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