[PLUG] Wireless on Sarge

Aaron Burt aaron at bavariati.org
Thu Jan 6 03:07:57 UTC 2005


On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:03:28PM -0800, Hoult, Harlan wrote:
> With all of the glowing comments about Debian on this list I just had to
> switch my Dell C800 from dual boot XP/FC1 to XP/Debian. Currently I have
> beat it into submission except for wireless, which I haven't been able to
> get working. Where I am at:
> 
> - Sarge with kernel 2.6.8 using netinstall
> - the card is a Linksys WPC11 ver. 3

Should work with the linux-wlan-ng drivers, which are in Sarge.
Unfortunately, those are only compiled against the 2.4 kernel.  
I run 2.6 and compile my own from: 
ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/


Good luck,
  Aaron



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