Wireless Network driver needed

[Steve Brown]

Try:

 /sbin/lspci -v

Dave Smith wrote:

> I've gotten stuck at step one. When I try and use the command lspci -v 
> I get the error message:
>
> "command not found"
>
> In fact, when I check this in the books that I have I can't find this 
> as one of the options for "ls". Is there another command that has the 
> same efftc?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dave
>
> On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 11:29, duncan brown wrote:
>
>>/with the card in, type this:
>>
>>lspci -v
>>
>>this'll give you verbose details about your pci devices, find your network
>>adapter.  what you're looking for is the chipset (not made by linksys)
>>described inside, and then head over to the manufacturer of the chip.  i
>>have a belkin, but the chipset is admtek (who have linux drivers).
>>
>>now, you'll probably need to compile the kernel module, which should be
>>nothing more than unarchiving the .tar.gz/bz2 file, going into the dir and
>>type 'make'  this should create a .o file which you'll need to copy into
>>your wireless modules dir.
>>
>>/lib/modules/(kernel version here)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
>>
>>now, just reboot and let kudzu find the module.
>>
>>i had troubles with fedora and my belkin, since i had a natsemi nic in
>>already, which kudzu decided to overwrite.  yay for kudzu.
>>
>>so, it modified my /etc/modules.conf and my
>>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (which it should have just
>>created a new ifcfg-eth1)
>>
>>so, what you should do is backup the modules.conf and your ifcfg-eth0
>>BEFORE rebooting to your /root dir.
>>
>>now, if you reboot and it does overwrite your files and your old hardwired
>>nic isn't listed anymore, then you'll need to do this:
>>
>>edit the /root/ifcfg-eth0 file and change the interface (eth0) to eth1
>>(and if you don't want to use your hardwire nic as your connectoin to the
>>internet anymore, remove the GATEWAY= line)
>>rename the file to ifcfg-eth1 and copy it to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
>>
>>now, look at how /root/modules.conf is different from /etc/modules.conf,
>>if there's a line in your backup /root/modules.conf, add it to your
>>/etc/modules.conf
>>
>>-d
>>
>>-+(duncan brown
>>-+(duncanbrown at linuxadvocate.net
>>-+(//_http://www.linuxadvocate.net_
>>
>>
>>Dave Smith said:
>>> Does anyone know where to get a driver for a Linksys PCI Adapter
>>> WMP54GS? I've tried the Linksys web site without success and done Google
>>> searches to no avail.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Dave Smith
>>
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>>


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