Doofus wrote: > I intended to give this a try to see if I can get a Netgear WG511v2 > wireless LAN PC Card working. > > After downloading the small tar ball > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper) I noticed a top level > "debian" directory. Highly promising you might think, but unless I'm > missing something obvious (certainly a possibility) there's not one jot > of information on the specifics of this directory or how to use it with > (or in lieu of) the usual build instructions, either in the notes > included with the tarball, or anywhere on the sourceforge site. Pretty > poor really, I think. > The debian/ directory contains rules used for building a debian package. Check out chapter 3 of the debian programmer's manual [0] for information on how to use it.
You may also find chapter 6 of the apt howto to be helpful. [1] > They also say they have a ready to go .deb, but the link returns a 404 > file not found. Pretty poor really, I think. > > I realise I have no right to expect superlative code from well meaning > folks who do this development for the love of it, but as an advocate of > "if a job's worth doing it's worth doing properly", I'm wondering if I > shouldn't ditch the whole idea and buy a natively supported card. On the > other hand, someone here whith more nous than me may understand what's > what here and help me out? Natively supported cards can be difficult to find due to vendors changing chipsets without changing card versions. Hope that helps, Justin [0]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/programmer/ch-preparation.html [1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-sourcehandling.en.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
