installing drivers and other

vlok stone vlokstone at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 20 13:22:06 EDT 2004


--- frank at mogosystems.com wrote:

> 
> Hello All,
> 
> I thought I saw someone else with a Toshiba
> Satellite that had posted about
> putting Linux on it. After several viral attacks I
> put Redhat 9 on it. I have a
> mount to the Windows XP side so that I can save and
> delete files. I was able to
> find instructions for this on the net along with the
> download of an RPM. I need
> drivers for my D-Link DWG-650 wireless card. I found
> a tarball for it. However I
> am not as familiar with make
> as I would like to be. Is there a website that I
> could go to to find out about
> this process? 

tar -xvzf FILENAME.tar.gz
cd FILENAME
./configure
then as root ->
make
make install

you'll have to "modprobe" to install the  driver 
it should be in the README

try here for more wireless info 
http://www.linux-wlan.org/


> My display goes blank after a certain amount of
> inactivity. Sometimes when I get
> it to return the graphics, everything is a lower
> resolution. There are things off
> screen at this point. I have to use keystrokes to
> restart the computer because
> the mouse is "off the mark". Any suggestions or
> ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Frank Mogavero
> 
> 
> 


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