[nflug] Local YUM Install...

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

When we last left our adventurers...

> Yeah, I tried installing the acx100 stuff. Things seemed to go well
> until I needed to recompile the kernel. The instructions I was using (
> http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/ACX ) had me do a "make menuconfig".
> I had no idea what to do with the menu, and haven't had much time to
> look into it, so I got stuck at that point.
>
> Does anyone have any experience/pointers with "make menuconfig" or
> getting madwifi/acx100 to work in FC5?

"make menuconfig" gives you your kernel config options. If your kernel is 
already configured (which is the case if you got the source from the yum 
repos [I'm asuming]) then you can bypass that step and do the "make && 
make modules modules_install". If the driver is just a module and not 
actually built into the kernel (looks like it gets built as a module 
according to the wiki) then you can get away with just "make modules 
modules_install" and not have to much about with replacing your kernel 
and maybe even intrd. Which starts to get messy if you haven't done it 
before.

-Josh

>
> I'll look into the ndiswrapper and see how that works.
>
> -Dan
>
>>>> hubbardr at adelphia.net 07/06/06 9:33 PM >>>
> cybersource should be able to get your wireless working.  it should be
> the acx100 chipset, which, though it is a pita, but workable.
> you could also try to get ndiswrapper working with it (would require
> finding the sources, and installing them, which can be a pain, but
> fairly reliable)
>
>
>
> DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
>> There is no ethernet port on the laptop - the wireless card I'm
> setting
>> up is my only way to get to the internet.
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> peter at thecybersource.com 07/06/06 3:58 PM >>>
>>>>>
>> DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I am trying to configure my DWL-650+ wireless card on FC5. The
>>>
>> problem
>>
>>> is that there are no other network cards on my laptop, so I need to
>>>
>> copy
>>
>>> RPMs onto a cd, and get them on the laptop that way. I am trying to
>>> install Madwifi, and I am having trouble installing the RPMs
>>>
>> manually,
>>
>>> and I wanted to try doing a YUM install. As mentioned before, I
> have
>>>
>> no
>>
>>> internet connectivity, so I'd like to copy all of the files (that
>>>
>> YUM
>>
>>> would grab) onto a CD, and have YUM (on my laptop) look to the CD
> as
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> source for the RPMs and install madwifi that way.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any pointers on how to do this?! Thanks.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
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>> Because the dependancies will be based on what is installed already,
>> you
>> would have to do it from a box that had the exact packages installed
> as
>>
>> the one you have. It would be far easier to just take your box to
>> somewhere you have internet access and do it all via yum.
>>
>>
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