I need help installing a driver

[bearcat 0]

I'm going to have to install a blitzz driver for the wireless lan product I have hooked up to be able to connect to the internet. Since I've been having redhat linux 9.0 for little over a week now I have no idea how to install it. Allright would one of you linux smart people translate the following instructions so that a big dummie like me would understand it? Thanks in advance. Here they are...

 

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Blitzz BWU613 802.11b wireless USB adapter

Linux driver installation instructions

5/8/2003

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A. Compatibility.

The Usb driver works only in kernel version 2.4 series.

 

B. Update the USB Host Controller Driver

* use uhci.o rather than the default usb-uhci.o. Edit /etc/modules.conf and

i. replace alias usb-controller usb-uhci

ii. with alias usb-controller uhci

iii. reboot

 

C. Install the driver

- Download the Linux driver on

http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/atmelwlandriver.latest.tar.bz2

- Unpack the ATMEL wireless LAN card driver (anywhere you like).

# bzip2 -d -c atmelwlandriver.latest.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -

 

- In the atmelwlandriver directory run:

# make config

Select the following options:

Ć Build all? No

Ć Build debug version? Yes

Ć Build usb drivers? Yes

Ć Build usb 503a rfmd driver? Yes

Ć Build usb 503A intersil 3861 drivers? Yes

Ć Build usb intersil 3863 driver? No

Ć Build usb frmd 505 driver? No

Ć Build driver with custom pid vid? No

Ć Build pcmcia drivers? No

Ć Build minpci driver? No

Ć Build applications? Yes

Ć Build command line application? Yes

Ć If you get asked anything else, say yes.

 

#make install

 

This will do everything (install the driver patch

and the necessary files ). (make sure that you logged on

as root).

 

D. In order for the applications to run you have to enable

CONFIG_NET_RADIO in the kernel.

in /usr/src/linux

# make menuconfig

Select Network Device Support

|--->Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)

|--->Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)

 

E. Plug in the USB Wireless LAN card

 

F. Set up the Wireless Configuration

Go into the setup\objs directory and run #./lvnet to configure the ESSID,

Operation mode, Channel¡Ketc.

 

G. Run #netconfig to set up the IP configuration

 

Troubleshooting

1. Why can't I complie the driver on RedHat 7.1 and RedHat 7.2?

Ans: Please go to atmelwlandriver\src\usb and edit vnetusba.c

i. replace MODULE_LICENSEC(¡§GPL¡¨)

ii. with //MODULE_LICENSEC(¡§GPL¡¨)

iii. Try to compile again

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Hope it's just me that it makes no sense to.

 

-Bearcat

[danleff 0]

Boy, looking at this device, it is going to be a bear to get it going.

 

Good post of the issue and instructions.

 

Do you have any experience with wireless networking?

 

I assume this is a laptop that you are using the device with?

 

This may be over my head, but I found some other links that may be helpful to someone that has more experience with this. There appears to be neweer drivers that may work better.

 

references;

 

http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html

 

 

 

 

http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html

 

 

http://at76c503a.berlios.de/

 

 

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=59001&release_id=201712

[bearcat 0]

Quote:

Good post of the issue and instructions.

Thanks.

Quote:

Do you have any experience with wireless networking?

A little.

Quote:

I assume this is a laptop that you are using the device with?

No, it's a desktop with a wireless lan adapter. Model #BWU613
802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adaptor

www.iblitzz.com>> downloads>> BWU613802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN USB Adaptor
That's where the driver and instructions are located.

Thanks.

[danleff 0]

Not to discourage you, this will not be easy for a beginner. If you already have a router that is near the box that we are speaking of, then it would be much easier to get a PCI NIC (network) card (wired) and hook it up to the router, until you get the USB working.

 

Dapper Dan and I speak of this a lot. They can be had for about $10.00 and will save a lot of headaches, of course, if you have an accessible router. Look for one that is a Realtek or Syslink that should work well with your system.

[bearcat 0]

Allright, so I'm going to have to get a networking card? Where would I be able to find one of these?

[windows-linux-converter 0]

Re: D. In order for the applications to run you have to enable

CONFIG_NET_RADIO in the kernel.

in /usr/src/linux

 

 

 

 

Mandrake 10.1 doesn't have this directory #/usr/src/linux#, where is CONFIG_NET_RADIO in Mandrake?

[martouf 0]

all: I'm quite certain CONFIG_NET_RADIO has already been set in the Red Hat 9

and Mandrake 10 kernels.

 

don't worry about that part of the instructions - especially if you find the config

var set in your /boot/config-X.Y.Z file.

 

another hint the config var is set is when your distro includes 'wireless-tools'...

 

w-l-c: if you install the 'kernel-sources' package, then you'll have a /usr/src/linux dir.