Re: Using a prism2 usb card on Sarge

[Dave Johnston <lists@johnsto.co.uk>]

Dave Johnston wrote:
> Ok, seems I have both /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386 (from the install) and
> /lib/modules/2.6.8 (from the compile I did yesterday). The latter had
> linux-wlan-ng in it.
>
> Tried moving that folder to 2.6.8-2-386, but 'modprobe prism2_usb' just
> reports 'invalid module format' for 'p80211.ko' and 'prism2_usb.ko'.
>
> Guess I'll need to download the source for 2.6.8-2-386 but 'apt-cache
> search kernel-source-2.6' only gives one result - the same
> 'kernel-source-2.6.8' that I downloaded and compiled with yesterday.
>
> Anyone any idea how to get the source for 2.6.8-2-386, or is it just the
> headers and kernel image I need?

It seems I have now fixed this.

For reference:

I installed kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 via apt-get, and configured them 
(make menuconfig). Then downloaded linux-wlan-ng source, extracted, did 
make config, make all, make install. One 'modprobe prism2_usb' later and 
its working a treat.

Ta!