Wireless DWL-520 (D-link): Compiling module

Joel Hammer joel
Mon May 17 11:58:11 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:32:56AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> Any reason you're running such an old kernel?  If you look, you'll see
> that almost every newer kernel has wireless updates.  I'd give it a try
> w/ 2.4.24 or 2.6.1.
> 
> Also, the hermes.o is not the actual driver.  There'll be another driver
> that depends on the hermes:
> orinoco_cs              4808   1 
> orinoco                31768   0  [orinoco_cs]
> hermes                  5892   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
> ds                      6888   1  [orinoco_cs]
> yenta_socket           10112   1 
> pcmcia_core            43296   0  [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]

I do have the orinoco_pci module compiled, too. But,
that won't insmod without hermes.o insmod'ed.

I guess I'll nose around the lindows site and see if I
can upgrade my kernel without having to compile it myself,
which I have never accomplished with lindows.

Joel



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