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Old 01-17-2008, 08:08 PM
John Stumbles
 
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Default Re: Mandrake 2.6.3-4mdk v. 2.6.3-7mdk - trying to get a wireless card to work

"Eric Moors" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
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> > In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
> > "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
> >> I'm trying to get an 802.11g PCMCIA adaptor (Dabsvalue aka Edimax 7108
> >> aka Ralink Tech RT2500)
> >>to work under mdk 10.0. The driver (from Ralink's web
> >> site) expects uname -r = 2.6.3-4mdk whereas my system has 2.6.3-7mdk.
> >> What difference does the -x number (-4 v. -7) indicate?

>
> Get the source code and compile it yourself.
>
> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm


D'oh! Didn't think of that (getting weenified by this packages business -
when I used Solaris I used to have to compile everything myself, and often
to faff around with the order of compilers in $PATH to get it to do the
right thing :-)

Unfortunately 'make all' throws up errors, starting with
'/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file ...'
The README says the source has been verified for 'Linux versions after
RedHat Linux 7.1' so maybe modversions.h is a RH thing?


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