wireless card drivers

From: sam (slowcoachis_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 00:48:32 GMT

I am having problems. I am a linux novice. I know pc's pretty well. I am
trying to install drivers for my pcmcia wireless card. I have the files
from the manufacturer. They include: drivers for redhat 7.3 and 8.0 and
the linux source code. the linux source code includes:
adm8201.c
adm8201.h
ADM Prv.o
lm.h
Makefile
README
STA Module.h
Wlan Mac.h

In the README file, the following is where i get lost, and would
appreciate help. i do have wireless-tool installed. Using uname i was
able to determine the version of linux i'm using is linux
2.4.21-202-athlon. I don't really know what this means, and i don't know
if i have the source code.

  5. If you get the source code and you want to compile it by yourself.
        a. Install wireless-tool by yourself.
          (We recommand wireless-tools-25)
        b. Make sure you have the kernel 2.4.x source code.
        c. You can modify the Makefile to fit your enviroment. We recommad
           you make a soft link linux-2.4 of kernel source in /usr/src/
           eg. If you had kenrel source linux-2.4.20 in /usr/src/
               type "ln -s linux-2.4.20 linux-2.4"
        d. Type "make"
        e. The file 8211.o is the ADM8211 linux driver
        f. "insmod 8211.o" to test your linux driver
          (If you encounter some error messages, please try "insmod -f
8211.o")

sam

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