Hardware :: Copy A Compiled A Module/driver For USB Wifi Router To Another Distro
Jun 23, 2010
Recently I bought a Usb wifi router Belkin F6D4050 as my old laptop does not have a wifi chip. Unfortunately Belkin does not give Linux drivers for their products. I searched around the web and found a solution where after downloading the ralink drivers and making some modifications it worked under ubuntu
As my laptop is a PIII I decided to install Arch core image and build on it. I followed the same instructions in compiling the drivers for the usb router and yes it worked under arch linux.
It generated a .ko file and it loads at boot time.
Now say I want to use Puppy/Ubuntu etc instead of Arch and I want to access wifi through the router.
My question is whether copying this .ko file specific to the device to another distro puppy/ubuntu in the similar path make it work or it needs to be recompiled on the new distro
Can someone tell me how to correct the "Invalid module format"? I hope that correcting the "Invalid module format" error, I will not have the "Unknown symbol in module" error.
Note: I am using wlan1 for this module as I previously am online with the wlan0 network.The same error occurs if I use ./wlan0up.
the only error message I can find comes from "dmesg|tail"all it shows is "no IPv6 router"any body know what is going on here or where where to look for more clues the next time I get around public wifi Oh the windoze washers and apple polishers don't seem to have any problems at all
I have a pc which has 2 network cards, 1 wifi and 1 ethernet card.
I'm using wifi card to connect to wifi network (internet) and i'm planing to share this wifi/internet connection via ethernet to wireless router (siemens sx763) so i can have internet on my other devices, e.g. mobile phone, laptop.
It's easy to bind a device to a usb driver by doing something like
Code: modprobe driver vendor=vid product=pid. I'm wondering if this can be done with a compiled-in module: is there a way to dynamically tell Linux to use a specific module for a device?
About a month ago, I decided to go deeper in my Linux knowledge. I've been reading a lot and found out that Arch linux would be my learning distro. As I was installing Arch, it was a pain at first but I really learned a lot which I would never ever learn with Mint. Now I decided to take a step further is which "compiling your own kernel".
MY PROBLEM:
Everything was smooth in my Arch for a 2 weeks until I decided to compile my own kernel. I currently have a Nvidia GTX 460 1GB card.
BTW, the method I used to install nvidia with 2.6.37 was
Code: pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils and that worked with all of the .37 kernels (-1 -2 -3 -4) which was download from kernel.org.
When I compiled the .38 (using the same .config of .37), it just boots up to the terminal (not loading gdm). However, I could still login by typing my username and password. So I've checked dmesg of both .37 and .38 and noticed that the Nvidia driver is not loaded in .38.
I tried reinstall it by running pacman and it doesn't do anything. It was thinking of uninstalling nvidia and nvidia-utils but there are so many dependencies conflicts (like screensaver, compiz, etc).
Since, I didn't want to mess up my .37 install, I just grabbed an old HDD and installed from scratch again. This time, I compiled the .38 kernel first (without gui) and then installed nvidia nvidia-utils. It was the same problem.
With this observation, I'm concluding that the nvidia and nvidia-utils from pacman is not compatible with .38.
I've read that I have to wait for nvidia to release a driver that will be compatible with the .38 kernel. Is that true? Does it mean I have to wait for nvidia/nvidia-utils to be updated from pacman? How would I know when it is updated?
I've also read about nouveau, but I guess that is not for me because it doesn't support 3D.
Is there a work around for me to use nvidia/nvidia-utils with .38?
Is nvidia and nvidia-utils proprietary drivers? What is the difference with these two and the one you download directly from nvidia?
First of all, I apologize for the bombardment of questions. As you can tell, I'm so clueless on how nvidia drivers work on linux in general (since it was spoon fed by mint) and I really would love to learn about this is a deeper level. Could someone please explain to me (LAYMANS terms) how nvidia works (and possibly a solution to my issue).
EDIT: Additional info - I have a netbook that also runs arch. It uses an Intel GMA integrated video chip which I used "xf86-video-intel" from pacman and I believe since it is open source, it works with .38 fine. So does that mean if you use an open source driver, it will work with all other kernels?
My gentoo laptop doesn't have a serial port, so I got a usb-serial (RS-232) adapter from ebay. However when I plug it in, the only thing dmesg mentiones is: Code:usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2I've tried to look for a kernel driver in "make menuconfig" by pressing "/" and typing 232. Nothing about RS-232. Device Drivers -> Character drivers -> Serial drivers has 8250 and UART as a module. Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB serial converter support has in-kernel: USB generic serial driver, and FTDI Single port driver as a module, but it still isn't getting recognized.Is there some module i forgot to enable, or do i have to download a separate module from somewhere?
I have Centos5.4 loaded on a late 2008 MACBOOK Pro and would like to get wireless working. I've attempted to download the broadcom driver and create a driver module with no luck.
I managed to find an older version of the rt3572 driver to compile to get this dongle to work fine, and it did. After that I added "module rt3572sta" (or whatever it is, not on Ubuntu to check now) to the end of /etc/modules. However, when I boot up Ubuntu, most of the time the driver won't load. If I run 'modprobe rt3572sta' from the terminal, I get this message -
As a part of my final project,i am beginner and this is the first one that i have the opportunity to work under linux fedora,my task consist to develop with C a driver of wifi by using the SDIO Wifi card as an interface. This driver will be included in a digital receiver TV.
I've bought a 500GB Seagate hdd.the Current hdd carrying Debian has started showing troubles(and will have to RMA it).Can I Copy Debian to a New Ext4 Partition on the New hardddisk?What is the recommended way to mirror copy(everything)?I've last rescued this way some 4 years back using "dd".
I have a couple of dell precision boxes running centos 5.4, that are occasionally sent to trade shows. I would like to set them up to connect to wireless networks. Question, what is generally considered the best usb wireless nic to purchase for this distro/release? Also, any opinions on the best wireless aircard and carrier to use, ie; sprint at&t, etc?
Whenever i copy ELF or BIN files from the filesystem of linux i must get permission denied. For this case i have gone through the linux security module but didn't get much help regarding the permission denied only in case of copy of ELF and BIN files from filesystem. how can i proceed in this. WORK DONE:
1. Downloaded linux-2.6.25.14
WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE:
1. compile the kernel with some modifications in linux security module to get the desired results but this time i am unaware of that.
download new driver compiled and installed boot it is not loading. uname=Linux Kev 2.6.35.11-83.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 7 07:06:44 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsusb= Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 005 Device 002: ID 03f0:0024 Hewlett-Packard KU-0316 Keyboard Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
I have been experiencing slight problems while attempting to connect to the internet via a wireless router. I can connect to my router perfectly fine on Vista and I could connect to my friends router while I was in Ubuntu, but I can't connect to my router while on Ubuntu. I've been entering the same code that will work when I'm in Vista, but it wont work while in Ubuntu.
I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and have been seeking a method where I can backup photos and Open Office documents. Data is currently on both Karmic and an XP laptop sharing certain info. What I had thought was to have an old system act as a server for the purpose. I have been looking at various forums and see reference made to using SSH and another to using a wireless router that has a USB connection and an external HD. I think that my old system would be noisy and as space is a problem I see difficulty in keeping the noise down particularly as none of the cupboards have power points. I think that having to keep switching on and off would defeat the purpose of it acting as a server.
The option of using the wireless router looks good from the point of view that as the router is always on then the external HD would be also. What concerns me is how this would operate. Will I require to load Karmic on to the HD also how do I access the drive to let me work with it. I would appreciate guidance on using an external HD as I am under pressure to ensure that all data is fully backed up as XP has let us down in the past.
Squeeze's latest update has upgraded my kernel from 2.6.32-3-686 to 2.6.32-5-686.My wireless stopped working and then I realised that I had to rebuild the wifi modules. I had followed this earlier.URL...For this new kernel, which I step of the process should I repeat? Rebuild module? Or just do a modprobe?
I got notebook HP Pavilion 15-p171nr. Have installed Debian Wheezy. There was some problems, for example with screen brightness (backlight) and it was solved here: [URL] .....
The problem was solved with upgrading kernel 3.2.0 to 3.16.0 from backports... but... with these steps i lost my wi-fi wl module...
It was downloaded somewhere, compiled and worked well until kernel upgrade... For the current moment i can not compile it.
Within last steps official wiki recommends (my device is in the supported list): [URL] .... but I got problems with compilation... here they are:
I have installed correct linux-headers:
Code: Select allroot@hpnote:/home/yaroslav/Загрузки# apt-get install -t wheezy-backports linux-headers-amd64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done linux-headers-amd64 is already the newest version.
[Code] ....
Then I am trying to reconfigure already installed broadcom-sta-dkms package and here is what I got:
Code: Select allroot@hpnote:/home/yaroslav/Загрузки# dpkg-reconfigure broadcom-sta-dkms ------------------------------ Deleting module version: 5.100.82.112 completely from the DKMS tree. ------------------------------ Done. Loading new broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112 DKMS files... Building only for 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64
I think I have unique problem. I have a d-link DWL G510 rev c.(Austrailian) WiFi card in my pc which is detected as
Quote:
Network controller [0280]: RaLink RT2561/RT61 rev B 802.11g [1814:0302] in lspci -nn.
iwconfig shows:
Quote:
lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSIDff/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=6 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff Power Managementff ppp0 no wireless extensions.
Now sometimes it detects my wifi router and shows its ssid in nm-applet. but when I try to connect, it tries for 3 or 4 minutes and then fails. for most of time it even does not finds my router.
