linux-wlan on OS X

[David Collett]

linux-wlan are the prism drivers right?
Unless I am mistaken, they are already in ubuntu kernels.
I have a module called prism2_usb in my modules directory.
Now, since linux-wlan are a PITA and dont use wireless-tools
(iwconfig), you will also need the package "linux-wlan-ng" to get the
config tools etc.

Be sure to read the doco in the linux-wlan-ng package (it should be in
/usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng) as ubuntu(debian?) does not use an
/etc/init.d/wlan script and config files in /etc/wlan or whatever,
rather, you can add all the parameters you need in you
/etc/network/interfaces file and debian will do all the work for you.

Hope this helps.


On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 21:10:51 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:11:15PM -0500, Richard Sperling wrote:
> 
> > Small problem. Ubuntu Linux PPC doesn't support the Airport Extreme
> > wireless card on my Apple Powerbook G4. So I've got no Internet access
> > at the moment. I have another USB wireless card, but it needs the
> > linux-wlan driver to make it work. I need configured kernel source,
> > however, in order to compile linux-wlan. So my question is how I can
> > manually download and install the kernel source? Running uname -r
> > yields 2.6.8.1-3. I know there's  a kernel security update available,
> > but I'd like to get linux-wlan working first. Once that's done, then I
> > can use apt-get to grab the updates. Any help is appreciated.
> 
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/compile-kernel-module
> 
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