OK, I am having big problems.  I tried the manual method once again and got an error at step: <pre class="alt2" dir="ltr" style="border: 1px inset ; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;"> wget <a href="http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/TARFILE=rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz">http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/TARFILE=rt2500-cvs-daily.tar.gz</a> </pre>I had successfully done the automatic method but it did not work.  After removing the network manager I had no ability to see wireless networks.  I reinstalled network manager but it just showed the wired connection now.  I opened the wireless assistant and it said it had to close because there were no usable wireless devices found.  It looks like I am much worse off at this point.  I have no idea what to do and need help.  I am close to giving up on linux once again because this gets too frustrating.  Is there anyone relatively close to Wisconsin who could help me out?  I will drive down to what ever city and we could meet at a starbucks or something.  I am willing to pay someone or at least buy them lunch.  I just want to get this stupid wireless card to work for once. Thanks. <div>On 8/15/07, John Arbash Meinel <<a href="mailto:john@arbash-meinel.com">john@arbash-meinel.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 jason jenkins wrote: > I am not sure I understand what that means. The command you should run isn't:   sudo apt-get build-essential it is   sudo apt-get install build-essential   ^^^^ - run the next statement as superuser        ^^^^^^ - the program to run (apt-get)                ^^^^^^^ - tell apt-get you want to install the following                          packages (you can also update and upgrade                          all packages with apt-get, not just install                          them)                        ^^^^^^.... a list of packages to install John =:-> > > on a side note I decided to go ahead with the automatic script and that > seemed to work (it did installing stuff for a while then cam back to the > prompt).  But I don't have any wireless, under connections it just has wired > and modem where there used to be a wireless as well.  i assume this is > because I no longer have network manager.  So I tried installing the wicd > program and that didn't really work either because it still says there is no > wireless found.  So it looks like I screwed stuff up pretty well. > > On 8/15/07, John Arbash Meinel <<a href="mailto:john@arbash-meinel.com">john@arbash-meinel.com</a>> wrote: > jason jenkins wrote: >>>> ok, I am getting errors up the ying yang. >>>> on the 2nd part of the first step this is what happned: >>>> sudo apt-get build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` >>>> E: Invalid operation build-essential >>>> > sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` >              ^^^^^^^ > > John > =:-> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org">http://enigmail.mozdev.org</a> iD8DBQFGwylYJdeBCYSNAAMRApvkAJ4zrcSJ59uY7nwuhLjBXp3zRpcl5ACfdqde e6w7SGcq+zLZPPhki3DKKsE= =8o4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div>