wireless driver?Forum: Laptops Topic: wireless driver? started by: tjwoosta Posted by tjwoosta on Sep. 25 2008,20:05
i made a bootable usb flash drive with damnsmalllinux ( i plan to use it mainly on my laptop)the problem is that i cant get wireless (rtl8187b) or ethernet (rtl8101e) to work on previous installs of DSL (with different hardware) the ethernet worked no problem on a fresh install but whatever, im not really concerned about ethernet, i just want internet working so i have a wireless driver for my wifi card that works perfectly on ubuntu but i have no idea if it will work on dsl and to make things worse, i have no ethernet, so i cant download the drivers my only option was to put the drivers on a cd-r but now i have no idea how to mount my dvd-drive please help me Posted by curaga on Sep. 26 2008,10:39
Your dvd-drive is one of /dev/hdX. Are you using DSL 4.x? In there you can mount either from the command line or by right-clicking any icon.Are the drivers you mentioned Windows drivers (for ndiswrapper) or something else? Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 26 2008,17:27
You might need to compile it: < http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloa....n=false > (grab the compile-3.3.5.uci package from mydsl to build it)For wireless, you'll probably need to use ndiswrapper. �The native drivers (realtek's or kernel's) look like they are kernel 2.6 only. Posted by Juanito on Sep. 27 2008,07:44
My dvd shows as /dev/scd1 and is mounted by dsl-3.x as cdrom i.e. click on the mount tool "cdrom" to mount it. My cd drives (scsi) show as /dev/sr1 and /dev/sr2 and are mounted by dsl-3.x as cdrom1 and cdrom2
Posted by WDef on Sep. 27 2008,09:14
Just a reminder that kernel modules should be compiled with the same version of gcc that the running kernel was compiled with (normally gcc 2.95 for dsl's shipped 2.4.31 kernel). Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 27 2008,21:14
Right, good reminder :P
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