[Novalug] Connecting an EeePC with F8 -- UPDATE PS
Beartooth
karhunhammas at Lserv.com
Wed Feb 27 14:58:07 EST 2008
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Brandon Saxe wrote:
> Just make sure the driver was compiled against the
> same kernel or else it may not work.
>
> Your best bet is to find a driver that somebody
> compiled against the same kernel you plan to use.
> Better yet would be to get the source of the driver
> and compile it against your current kernel (assuming
> the driver source is compatible with your kernel)
Aaarrgghhh. I'm not about to start using source code and
compiling myself; but thanks for the wikipedia quote! It's good
to know I'm not alone. Oh, and btw, the falcon/doll project, at
least with pcmcia, eventually untarred down to two .ko files --
which F8 can't open ....
> As somebody mentioned before, maybe check out the
> madwifi project?
I'll try that -- and maybe the fedora.general list on
gmane. Thanks again!
> Good luck!
I can certainly use lots of that; thanks yet again!
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