[ale] DLink DWL-520 or SMC2402W wireless card Mandrake 10.0 anyone have any advice?

[Geoffrey]

Jay wrote:
> I've been trying to follow the docs on the website and I'm dyin here.  
> I'm still new to linux, and while I'm determined and quick to pick it 
> up, some of this stuff is just beyond me experience so far.  So far, 
> what I have done is grab the firmware.agent file from the site, put it 
> in the proper dir and also move the firmware to the right dir after 
> renaming it to isl3890.  Now, when I try to do make on the source for 
> the driver, I get errors that looks like it's having trouble finding the 
> kernel source.  However, I dont know how to check a) if I have kernel 
> source installed or b) where is the path to it, if I do, because it's 
> not /usr/src

You don't need to recompile.  The 2.6 kernel has support for this 
chipset.  Make sure the card is installed and execute 'lspci'

Post that results.

Do the following as root:

modprobe firmware_class

What does that return?

What does 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug' return?

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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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