How about some more details: 1. What's the exact model of the card? 2. Where did you get the driver? 3. Did you mean ./configure instead of ./config?
Just to provide an overview of how drivers are installed under Linux (when compiling from source):
Usually, the ./configure command will create all the Makefiles necessary to build the driver. Then, you type "make" to start the build (compilation) process. That creates a couple small files with .o as the extension. These are the drivers. Then, typing "make install" copies those files to a directory in /lib/modules. That way, you can say "insmod driver_name" and it will start using the driver. It's usually better to get a binary version of the driver (usually, an rpm file).
Hope this helps. Let us know the details of your question, and we'll see if we can get some better answers.
--Dave
Erin! wrote:
okay, so i have a wireless card (US Robotics) and it works fine when
i'm in windows, but even though i've installed a linux driver, it
refuses to work... i'm not very good at installing from tars, so maybe
i'm doing something wrong, but i typed in: tar -zxvf tarname.tar
then tried ./config, make, make install, etc.... i even read the
README that was inside the tarball, but none of that seemed to work... im' not sure if i'm just inept or what... i've had similar problems
with other programs i've tried to install... am i skipping steps in
the install process????
~Erin
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