[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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