[wplug] setting up an old laptop

Ben Beige b.beige at zoominternet.net
Wed Jan 21 13:23:27 EST 2004


Anyone have the prism2_cs.o  file laying about on a debain box :)

Ben

At 08:10 PM 1/20/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Hmmm no cdrom fir one, though I may try on a laptop at work tommrow and 
>it's nota  pci based system (too old)
>
>
>At 01:21 AM 1/21/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>>On Wednesday 21 January 2004 00:16, Ben Beige wrote:
>> > Well I've gotten a base install of debian up and going I dunno how to
>> >  get the wireless card working though
>>
>>You might cheat and boot KNOPPIX and see if it recognizes the card, and
>>then build/load the module in Debian. Or you might do it the "proper"
>>way, which is lspci -vv and then trying to figure out what your card
>>is, if it has modules for Linux and where these are.
>>
>>I'd go with #1 :-)
>>
>>Usually finding out which driver is appropriate is the toughest part of
>>getting it to work.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>-A
>>
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