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Installing WLAN drivers
Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 5:39 pm
by bdonkey
Hi,
I have 3.0 Home installed on my xbox, and I've been trying to get the WLAN drivers installed, except I have no idea how. Should I just follow the instructions about rebuilding the kernel and stuff?
Any pointers? I'm new to linux.
Thanks!
Posted: Sun May 23, 2004 10:19 pm
by nobspangle
If you have instructions for your wlan card to work with linux that involve recompiling the kernel then that is what you should do.
build it with
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make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install
the finished kernel is /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
you need to copy it to E:\ and rename it to vmlinuz, back up the old kernel first in case the new one doesn't work.
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 12:49 am
by msnyder
How do you put a WLAN in Xbox? Are you using a USB one?
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 10:57 pm
by bdonkey
Yep, specifically a DWL-120, Revision D1 (the prism chipset, not atmel)
I have the drivers installed now using emerge, but I can't quite get the SSID and WEP key files to take. Do they have to be in /etc/wlan/wlancfg-*** ? That's what the readme says, but the emerged package puts them in /etc/conf.d/wlancfg-***.
Anyway, thanks for the help!
P.S. And where's the rc.local file, for setting up the driver at boot?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 6:47 am
by nobspangle
gentoo uses init scripts to start and stop devices and servers, these are found in /etc/init.d/
any options that need to be passed to the device or server at startup are placed in /etc/conf.d/
to start the device you use
to stop the device you use
to restart
one other you may find useful, if you start a device and it fails, you won't be able to restart it because you will get an error saying it has already been started
will make gentoo(x) think the device is stopped, regardless of whether or not it is.
To make a device start on boot
here the devicename is the same as the one in /etc/init.d
to remove a device from the boot sequence you previously added
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 2:38 am
by bdonkey
Wow, I wasn't expecting such a detailed reply.
Thanks!
Posted: Wed May 26, 2004 6:54 am
by nobspangle
you asked a sensible question
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Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:30 pm
by exclusiv81
once the drivers are installed and the device is started, will this usb wireless automatically pick up the connection and configure?
im wondering so that i can use other people's internet in my car
do you have to setup the SSID and the WEP keys?