Madwifi on Etch without Ethernet

[anthq]

Although my profile says i have FC6, I just installed Debian Etch instead. I was told that since Etch is in testing, and madwifi was listed under "testing", it would be in one of the 3x4.5GB dvds i downloaded (the only reason I dl'd the dvds). well, they didnt, and so i went to packages.debian.org (on windows, i have no ethernet connection), and i downloaded the .deb for madwifi-tools (libc was installed of course).

i restarted, went into debian, and installed it, and then restarted again to be sure, but no wireless device showed up. i tried modprobe ath_pci, but it said it didnt know what i was talking about.

did i do something wrong or am i missing something?

thanks!

i have a d-link dwl-g510 rev. b btw.

-anthq

[traeskapa]

Hey!
Maybe this thread could come in handy for you
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...tml#post419257

[anthq]

wait so wat did you do? i have kernel 2.6.18 already, what did you do after you upgraded?

[anthq]

oh i just saw montikki's first post, h/o lemme try it

[anthq]

no, i couldnt get madwifi-ng to work. it doesnt have a ./configure and i dont have kernel sources/headers.

anyone have any ideas?

[traeskapa]

Hmm, read some of this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Wireless_networking
It may help

EDIT: And that about the kernel sources/headers, that's in the first thread too