WLAN setup

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LeadingMNMs · #1 Post by **LeadingMNMs** » 2005-08-29 18:24

Sorry to be a pain, I'm rather new to Linux and am trying to setup my Debian machine to use my wireless network.

The wireless adapter connects to the USB header and as far I can tell should use the Prism chip. I believe that I need to use the linux-wlan-ng driver / package to get the adapter to work, since at the moment, it doesn't appear as an adapter.

I had a go installing it, but it came up with an error about the kernel source tree being missing or incomplete. I'm assuming that I've supplied the wrong path, but I don't really know where things are at the moment.

Using the 2.6.8-11 AMD64 kernel - I think.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Guest · #2 Post by **Guest** » 2005-09-06 19:24

What does lsusb gives when you install it?
What does lsmod gives after install?

Guest · #3 Post by **Guest** » 2005-09-06 19:33

Anonymous wrote:What does lsusb gives when you install it?
What does lsmod gives after install?

That is, when you install the device, not program. Sorry.

If you install hald and hal-device-manager, you can have a Graphical UI to look att stats. Those are usefull to get info about which driver to use.
(lsusb -v gives idVendor and idProduct that is usfull id information)

LeadingMNMs · #4 Post by **LeadingMNMs** » 2005-09-08 21:00

lsusb gives

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Bus 003 Device 002: ID 07cc:0301 Carry Computer Eng., Co., Ltd 6-in-1 Card Reader
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 124a:168b AirVast
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

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I hope these mean something to you.