Category Archives: drivers
Debian Squeeze (aka 6.0) on IBM ThinkPad R52.
Installing the latest version of Debian ThinkPad R52 was not as straight forward as I thought. I had only one issue and this blog post talks about that. Since I manually solved this problem, I hope a blog post might be useful for others. The problem occurs while detecting “Network devices”. The installer is unable [...]
Compile issues with ieee80211 and ipw2200 on linux kernel 2.6.25.
The latest version of iee80211 (ieee80211-1.2.18) and ipw220 (ipw2200-1.2.2) are not compiling properly on the latest linux kernel 2.6.25.3. I got the following error when I compiled ipw2200 on my laptop. /home/noorul/software/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.2.2/ipw2200.c: In function ‘ipw_pci_probe’: /home/noorul/software/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.2.2/ipw2200.c:11937: error: implicit declaration of function ‘SET_MODULE_OWNER’ In my case I was able to find out a solution from some [...]
Configuring SE W810i on Debian GNU/Linux to connect to the internet.
I use SE W810i with Airtel Mobile Office service to connect to the internet. There are two ways by which you can do this. One is connecting the mobile phone to the computer using USB cable. Another option is to connect the phone using Bluetooth. Both options allows you to use the phone as a [...]