Hello, I can’t seem to get my wifi to work on my dell laptop. I have the proper drivers, they are untarred (or tarred not sure of the terminology). All the old drivers are disabled and blacklisted from startup. I go to build the driver (make clean and make command), and they both throw an error. I looked to the documentation of the driver, and it says I need the linux-generic package, which is downloaded and installed properly. Any ideas to solve this are greatly appreciated…i REALLY don’t want to go back to Windows 7 just because of this.
go to the wireless forum Wireless and read through the three stickies at the very top of that forum…one of them will probably get you rolling…
i don’t what this “linux-generic package” is you speak of, but if you need to compile drivers you will have to open YaST, go Software Manager, flip the filter from “search” to “patterns” and scroll to “Development” and click to select “Base Development” and C++ Development (not certain about that last one, but think so)…
then run you configure and make as a normal user, and then make install as root…
HOWEVER, read the stickies first, there might be a much easier way to get your wireless zinging…
Thanks. As for the linux-generic…sorry, I’m sure there is more. I don’t have access to my laptop (at school) right now, but I will take a look at the stickies and see what I can find. Thanks.