Re: How to install wifi card [newbe]

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On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:43:17PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote:
> Hello,..
>
>
> After really frustrating phone call (explaining how to get the wifi to
> work on etch on ivtv card ) i started to wonder
>
> Does anyone work on an automatic tool to recognize and build the
> module (either with m-a or wget+make+make install) ?
>
>
> I thought about biulding a package that will get _ALL_ wifi modules
> (including Ndiswrapper) but will only install the relative module
> using Lexical anlyzer from lspci (to get the name).
>
>
> Any better ideas will be welcome.
>

A package like that would be near useless. For ndiswrapper there are many GUIs, and for everything else there are drivers (ipw3945, for example).

>
> How do you recommend to get ready for installing Etch (or lenny ) on
> unknown pcs ?
>

If the system came with an OS pre-installed, use lspci (Or whatever the Windows equivalent is) and write down all of the hardware. Video card, sound card, wireless chip, etcetera. You will need all of this when it comes time to install Debian, since Debian doesn't install a majority of that by itself, and leaves it up to the end-user.

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