Global Sun Technology Inc GL2411020700 Manual De Usuario

 

1. Description 

The Linux-wlan-ng package is a Linux device driver and subsystem package that is designed to 
provide the full range of IEEE 802.11b MAC management capabilities for use in user-mode utilities 
and scripts. The package currently supports the Prism2 11Mb/s reference design PCMCIA wireless 
LAN (WLAN) card. 

For a list of elements that are still undone, see the TODO file in this directory. 

 

See the COPYING and LICENSE files. 

Top level directory for Linux-wlan-ng: 

./doc  

- source distribution documentation 

./man 

- man pages 

./etc  

- scripts used at run-time 

./src  

- source code for various components 

 

3.

Note 

Some of the subdirectories have empty README files. This means we haven't gotten to the 
contents of these directories. The empty README is just a trick to prevent CVS from pruning the 
directory. 

 

4. DISCLAIMER!!! 

prism2dl 

This utility is used for loading firmware images into prism2 cards.  DO NOT USE IT! 

 

 

UNLESS YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING.   

This utility has the capability to damage a card in a way that can only be repaired by 
the manufacturer.   

This software has currently been tested on the following configurations: 

      

linux-2.2.9  + pcmcia-cs-3.1.8  + RedHat6.0 

      

linux-2.2.12 + pcmcia-cs-3.0.14 + RedHat6.1 

The following building and installing instructions assume you have configured source code for both 
the Linux kernel package and PCMCIA-CS package installed on your system. It's important that the 
configured code for these packages match the kernel and PCMCIA-CS you currently have running. 

 

Build Instructions: (Login as root. You may follow the mark '#' to type the command.)  

 

 1) untar the package using the command: