DriverLoader in Fedora

[Robert L Cochran]

I agree you need to be more specific with your problem. Newness to the 
issue will not secure you help if you only post a few lines of 
generalized claims. You can easily copy and paste error messages and put 
them in a post.

I use the Linuxant driverloader. I installed from the RPM for Red Hat 9, 
and I can tell you that the driverloader does work.

What is the purpose of the Driverloader product? It acts as a wrapper 
around your Microsoft Windows driver software. It makes it possible to 
load and use the Windows drivers under Linux.

However,

*Your wireless NIC must be using a chipset supported by Linuxant! Don't 
bother installing it if your chipset is not supported.

*you must read and follow the installation directions posted on the 
Linuxant site.* This is very important, don't just try to rpm -ivh the 
package. There are several steps you need to follow.

*You must have the Microsoft Windows driver components ready for the 
Linuxant driverloader to work with.

*At the web-based login screen for the Linuxant product, you must login 
as root.

*You must have a license key from Linuxant to completely install the 
product! Therefore your computer needs to be connected to the internet 
if you wish to take advantage of their automated registration and key 
generation facilities.

*After installation of the driver loader, you may very well have to 
change the order in which the boot time runlevel scripts execute. 
S24pcmcia problably needs to be run before S10network.

I'm probably going to dump my 30 day trial of the Driverloader when it 
expires because Linuxant never responded to my support queries and the 
product is not that great when I get down to it. For instance it won't 
tell me the active SSID's in my area. It has some rough edges  that 
cause error messages.

Bob


Joey Skufca wrote:

> Robert Cavey wrote:
> 
>> A little friendly advice...
>>
>> In the future ... be as specific as possible cut and paste the error
>> message if at all possible.
>>
>> Is it a rpm or tar.gz, etc. version of the "driverloader" and is it
>> RedHat 9 specific??
>> Looking at the linuxant site, they only support RedHat 9 so you might
>> want to try the below method:
>>
>> TAR x86 driverloader-1.38.tar.gz   
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:32, Joey Skufca wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I recently tried to install driverloader (to use the wireless pci 
>>> card WMP54G) on my new fedora install and it says i need some kernel 
>>> package and that it needs cd 3 to continue install. So i put the cd 
>>> in and it trys to install the kernel package but then gives me an 
>>> error and exits. Does anyone know what the problem is and if i can 
>>> fix it?
>>>
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> 
> Sorry about my nonspecific post. I'm new at this. I downloaded the 
> driverloader-1.37-1.i386.rpm file (the one for other kernels). I will 
> try the tarball package.
> 
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Bob Cochran
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