NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › Dell wireless and NDIS Wrapper : Detailed intsructions
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:

Dell wireless and NDIS Wrapper : Detailed intsructions

post #1 of 17
9/14/04 at 9:13pm
Thread Starter 
http://shinzui.org/space/Dell+Inspiron+9100+on+Linux
Reply
Reply
post #2 of 17
9/15/04 at 2:04am
I've used it too, and went smoothly ... just take care that driver is available in 2 different dictories ... IR and AR stand for International and America ... so just depending where you are !
Reply
Reply
post #3 of 17
9/15/04 at 9:25am
Cool, someone from the FOSDEM team on this forum See you on february !! I look forward to go on the ULB Campus for this great meeting
Reply
Reply
post #4 of 17
9/15/04 at 11:00am
Thread Starter 
I had problems, and yes, i read all the documentation. I could extract through the command prompt, then i cd'd to the directory, but whenever i typed make or make install, it said "command not found". Any ideas? I'v looked through many guides on how to compile in linux, and all of them say these should work.
Reply
Reply
post #5 of 17
9/15/04 at 6:45pm
Are you sure you were root?
Reply
Reply
post #6 of 17
9/15/04 at 6:59pm
Thread Starter 
Pretty sure. I'm on SuSE so it logged me on automatically as Andrew, i logged off that and logged in as root. There were bombs on the wallpaper Anyway, whenever issued a command it would say root@such and such. I just tried it again and got the same result.
Reply
Reply
post #7 of 17
9/15/04 at 7:05pm
OK. Word of caution: it is highly recommended NOT to use root as a full account. Use your own account and then 'su' into your root account.

Mikhail
Reply
Reply
post #8 of 17
9/15/04 at 8:06pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Malone
I had problems, and yes, i read all the documentation. I could extract through the command prompt, then i cd'd to the directory, but whenever i typed make or make install, it said "command not found". Any ideas? I'v looked through many guides on how to compile in linux, and all of them say these should work.
Have you installed the 'make' package for SuSE? That is the most common solution to this problem. You can probably find it on this page [http://rpmseek.com/rpm-pl/make.html?...ake:PN:0:0:1:0].

Regards,

zakaluka.
Reply
Reply
post #9 of 17
9/15/04 at 8:07pm
LOL, wow. Are you telling me SuSE doesnt have make by default? WTF?
Reply
Reply
post #10 of 17
9/15/04 at 9:15pm
Actually, most distros won't install make/gcc/... if you don't install their 'dev suite' or whatever it's called. This is especially true of distros marketing to large companies (SuSE, Redhat, ...). I think you've just been spoiled by Gentoo .

Regards,

zakaluka2.
Reply
Reply
post #11 of 17
9/15/04 at 9:31pm
Heh. But how the hell are you supposed to make a custom install without knowing any better (that has no rpm or something)? I seriously think that people would be more confused with installing extra crap than running 'make; make install'. This is just weird; I seriously consider gcc, etc part of the core of a Linux system.
Reply
Reply
post #12 of 17
9/16/04 at 1:27am
Thread Starter 
No Make command????

The solution to all my problems, dang. I thought I was typing it wrong, like it needed an invisible underscore or something. SO glad I did not get grilled as a noob. Thank you!

Can't wait to see a distro without ls, or cd for that matter
Reply
Reply
post #13 of 17
9/16/04 at 1:31am
Thread Starter 
I've heard lots of places that you shouldn't use root as your main account, so I didn't. Why is this? Are they afraid you will edit a file that shouldn't be edited?
Reply
Reply
post #14 of 17
9/16/04 at 4:15am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Malone
I've heard lots of places that you shouldn't use root as your main account, so I didn't. Why is this? Are they afraid you will edit a file that shouldn't be edited?
Major security risk. The reason Windows viruses cause so much damage, among other things, is that most people log in with Administrator privileges on a regular basis. So, when a virus runs with their permission set, it can basically do whatever it wants to the system. Using linux, if you're not root, you pretty much have destructive access to your home directory, parts of /tmp, and not much else.

EDIT: also, a lot of people using the CLI have a REALLY bad habit of going too fast. I've personally typed in 'rm /' when I meant 'rm ./'. That one slip can cost you your system.

EDIT2: plus, it's so easy to become root and run programs using it while logged in as a regular user that there is no reason to be logged in as root for day-to-day tasks. Under windows, the only real way to do that is to log out and log back in, screwing everything up. Windows XP tries to fix this, but you still have to switch users in order to do what takes only a 'su' under Linux.

Regards,

zakaluka2.
Reply
Reply
post #15 of 17
9/16/04 at 9:02am
Zakaluka2 put it quite well. Another thing, similar to the virus point, is that if any piece of software has a dangerous bug and you're running it with root privileges, you'll be SOL.

Mikhail
Reply
Reply
post #16 of 17
9/16/04 at 8:49pm
The sudo package and su are your friends. I know on gentoo if you aren't in the correct group you can't even su to root. I'm with Mikhail, if it doesn't GCC what good is it. I mean what if all that is available are srpms you still have to recompile for your system.
Reply
Reply
post #17 of 17
9/16/04 at 11:39pm
Reply
Reply
New Posts  All Forums:Forum Nav:
  Return Home
  Back to Forum: Linux & Other OS's
NotebookForums.com › Forums › General Notebook Discussions › Linux & Other OS's › Dell wireless and NDIS Wrapper : Detailed intsructions