Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

tom arnall wrote:
> > I haven't made much headway with this, other than there does seem to be
> > a change between the sarge gcc and the etch / sid gcc in this area.
> >
> > Since I'm running sarge I can't immediately try it myself.
> >
> > One idea though -- given the level of support and Debian-friendliness
> > I've found from the last few days' googling for Madwifi, I'd be stunned
> > if the guys who put this driver together would deliver something that
> > wouldn't work with etch or sid (the usual disclaimers about testing and
> > unstable notwithstanding). Especially given that the available packages
> > are in /unstable and as such are targetting sid...
> >
> > There's a sarge-friendly version out there I noticed from my googling --
> > where did you get the version of the driver you are trying to compile?
> > Is there any chance you've picked up a sarge version of the driver and
> > are trying to compile it under etch or sid?
> >
> > Just a thought...
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >     
>
> Mark,
>
> thanks very much for your help in this thing.
>
> how do i tell if my kernel is sarge or sid/etch? 'uname -a' gives me: 
>
> 	Linux debian 2.6.8-2-386
> 	
> i am trying to stay with the testing segment of debian. will getting the sid 
> or etch version of the kernel force me to go to unstable?
>   
Debian flavors:  stable, testing and sid are not connected to kernels 
but that may just a word use question.  A simple way to determine what 
flavor you have is to look at /etc/apt/sources.list.  Some of the lines 
in that file will contain one or more of some of the words: stable, 
sarge,etch, texting, unstable or sid.  There are a couple of other files 
that might  contain that information but I don't remember them right now.

Paul Scott