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From: Greg on 22 Oct 2005 23:00 I'm a noob to Debian. I just installed the O/S on my PC. I'm impressed so far but I'm trying to get my wireless network card to work (Linksys WMP54G). I installed the wireless tools and downloaded "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory. My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the file, which appears to be compressed, and three windows open up, two appear to be emplty. The third contains the following three files; control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, debian-binary. When I click on the files, not much happens. How do I install this? I know binary files should be easier to install than "source packages", which are supposed to be compiled prior to installation. Thank you in advance, Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Stephen R Laniel on 23 Oct 2005 00:40 On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Greg wrote: > "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called > "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory. > My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the You need to handle this from the command line. There may be some way to do it graphically -- maybe using Synaptic? -- but the command-line route is pretty straightforward. Just go to the command line and type dpkg -i wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb to install the .deb file. There are a few caveats here: 1) You need to run that command as the root user. There are a few ways to do this, but the best is probably to use 'sudo'. If you don't know about sudo, now isn't the place to go into the details. Google around and you'll find plenty about how to get started with it. In the meantime, you can sign in as the root user using the 'su' command and the root password, then run the dpkg command from above. 2) The wireless assistant may depend on other packages that you've not installed. If so, the dpkg command above will give you some errors and say that it needs other packages. You'll then need to download these other packages and run 'dpkg -i' on them as well. If you can help it, it's better to get a package directly out of the apt system. Then you'd do something like sudo apt-get install wlassistant which would install all of wlassistant's dependencies first, then install wlassistant. But in this case, it looks like wlassistant is not in Debian, so you have no choice but to download and install other .deb files. That said, there are probably lots of other packages that *are* in Debian which do what you need, and it would be easier for you to use one of those. What are you trying to do with this package? We may be able to recommend others. -- Stephen R. Laniel steve(a)laniels.org +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
From: Greg on 23 Oct 2005 11:20 Stephen R Laniel wrote: > You need to handle this from the command line. There may be > some way to do it graphically -- maybe using Synaptic? -- > but the command-line route is pretty straightforward. Just > go to the command line and type > > dpkg -i wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb I was able to do this but encountered the following error messages; dependency problems prevent configuration of wlassistant: wlassistant depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1); however version of libc6 on system is 2.3.2.dsl-22. wlassistant depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.0-9); however version of libgcc1 on system is 1:3.4.3-13 wlassistant depends on libidn11 (>= 0.5.18); however version of libidn11 on system is 0.5.13-1.0. dpkg: error processing wlassistant (--install); dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: wlassistant. How do I acquire and install these updated libraries? > If you can help it, it's better to get a package directly > out of the apt system. Then you'd do something like > > sudo apt-get install wlassistant > > which would install all of wlassistant's dependencies first, > then install wlassistant. But in this case, it looks like > wlassistant is not in Debian, so you have no choice but to > download and install other .deb files. That said, there are > probably lots of other packages that *are* in Debian which > do what you need, and it would be easier for you to use one > of those. > > What are you trying to do with this package? We may be able > to recommend others. I'm trying to get Debian to recognize my wireless network card, Linksys WMP54G, so I can surf the net, check email and, ultimately, shares files with my MS home network. I don't think my system knows the wireless card is there. As a side note, I also have a wired NIC card installed in my pc. When I run a line to my router I can surf the net, etc, from Debian. So my main goal is to get the system to see and use the wireless card. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: John Marks on 28 Oct 2005 15:40 On Saturday 22 October 2005 22:33, Greg wrote: > I'm a noob to Debian. I just installed the O/S on my PC. I'm > impressed so far but I'm trying to get my wireless network card to work > (Linksys WMP54G). I installed the wireless tools and downloaded > "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called > "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory. > My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the > file, which appears to be compressed, and three windows open up, two > appear to be emplty. The third contains the following three files; > control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz, debian-binary. When I click on the files, > not much happens. How do I install this? I know binary files should > be easier to install than "source packages", which are supposed to be > compiled prior to installation. > > Thank you in advance, > > Greg I set up a linksys card on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu. You will need ndiswrapper and the correct windows driver. Ndiswrapper is a kernel module that will allow you to use a windows driver. I have not set it up on a Debian box, so I am not sure what steps you will need to take. I would have a look at these packages http://packages.debian.org/testing/source/ndiswrapper. Use lspci to find out what chip the card uses, so that you can locate the correct windows driver for the card. Good luck, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
From: Greg on 29 Oct 2005 10:20 >I set up a linksys card on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu. You will > need ndiswrapper and the correct windows driver. Thanks for the reply John. I got it up and running using ndiswrapper by following these instructions. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/answers.php?action=viewarticle&artid=500 Thank all for their help. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org
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