Re: Wireless Help
On Saturday 22 October 2005 22:33, Greg wrote:
> I'm a noob to Debian. I just installed the O/S on my PC. I'm
> impressed so far but I'm trying to get my wireless network card to work
> (Linksys WMP54G). I installed the wireless tools and downloaded
> "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called
> "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory.
> My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the
> file, which appears to be compressed, and three windows open up, two
> appear to be emplty. The third contains the following three files;
> control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, debian-binary. When I click on the files,
> not much happens. How do I install this? I know binary files should
> be easier to install than "source packages", which are supposed to be
> compiled prior to installation.
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Greg
I set up a linksys card on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu. You will need
ndiswrapper and the correct windows driver.
Ndiswrapper is a kernel module that will allow you to use a windows driver. I
have not set it up on a Debian box, so I am not sure what steps you will need
to take. I would have a look at these packages
http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/ndiswrapper.
Use lspci to find out what chip the card uses, so that you can locate the
correct windows driver for the card.
Good luck,
John
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