On Saturday 22 October 2005 22:33, Greg wrote: > I'm a noob to Debian. I just installed the O/S on my PC. I'm > impressed so far but I'm trying to get my wireless network card to work > (Linksys WMP54G). I installed the wireless tools and downloaded > "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called > "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory. > My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the > file, which appears to be compressed, and three windows open up, two > appear to be emplty. The third contains the following three files; > control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, debian-binary. When I click on the files, > not much happens. How do I install this? I know binary files should > be easier to install than "source packages", which are supposed to be > compiled prior to installation. > > Thank you in advance, > > Greg
I set up a linksys card on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu. You will need ndiswrapper and the correct windows driver. Ndiswrapper is a kernel module that will allow you to use a windows driver. I have not set it up on a Debian box, so I am not sure what steps you will need to take. I would have a look at these packages http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/ndiswrapper. Use lspci to find out what chip the card uses, so that you can locate the correct windows driver for the card. Good luck, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
