Which Server to do Web Hosting with "Wireless Adapter"

[Ogi]

Hi,

I was planning last night to rebuild one of my home PC's with W2K/SP4 and IIS so that I could host my own web server. All I want to do is simple HTML pages and display my photo's from various motocross/powerboat/super moto events.

However, it all went down hill as the server kept crashing so I'm thinking about switching to Linux. I work with Citrix and know Windows really well but haven't ventured far with Linux. I have a copy running on VMWARE (SuSE 9) but it is an unknown OS to me!

I've looked at your recommendations and am still confused for which version to go for!

I know at the moment there are many flavours of Linux but am thinking about buying a copy rather than downloading so I can "RTFM" and have bought Red Hat 7.3 last year. I realise that I should be on the latest version with the hardware that I want to use, Athlon 1Gb Processor, 393Mb Memory, 1x16Gb, 1x32Gb drives, 2 CDROMS (1's a cdwriter) and an ASUS V7700 video card.

My main pain is that I need to be able to support the Belkin F5D6050 Wireless USB Network Adapter as that is the only way I can connect to my DLink 604+. Unless there is another one that I can buy off the shelf with drivers? (I am in the UK)

Can you recommend what OS to go for and if possible, where to get drivers for said Adapter and how to install them?

I appreciate that it's not the easist thing but I'm grateful of any and all responses.

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[stefanwagner]

Well - there is the famous google-machine:
http://www.google.de/search?q=Belkin+F5D6050+Wireless+Linux&ie=UTF-8&hl=de&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

The struggle between the linux-distros is there, to make a difference out of nearly nothing.
There are differences in preselected packages, in available packages, in the installation procedere, and that's it.

Under the vain distro, there is a serious linux, and that's nearly the same, but most important thing.
You have to look for a driver, fitting to your kernel, not to your distro.

The actual kernel is 2.6.6 or maybe 2.6.7, and important is here only the leading 2.6
It was firstly introduced in Dezember last year.
The previous kernel was 2.4.x (Your RedHat 7.3 should include a linux 2.4.x). Any smaller number should be avoided.

The 2.5 number was reserved for unstable testing kernels in parallel development, and 2.7 kernel will be reserved for testing issues too.

If you find 'successfull'-messages for 2.4 kernels, the driver should work with your Linux - no matter if it is RedHat, BlueMoon, SuSe or LiSa.


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[Ogi]

Hi,

Many thanks, I probably did the same google search and I got the drivers downloaded, I even found some for 2.4.x but unfortunately it won't compile! I'm a complete novice in C and in Linux so am really bad but, it seems to complain about some of the modules calling the kernel or something like that.

To be truthful, I rebuild it last night under Red Hat 7 and got the OS working fine, I used VMWare yesterday at work and did a 7 install and configured and got the Apache running so knew roughly what to do when I got home but having tried a couple of drivers, one failed to "unzip" and the other failed to compile. I gave up and went back to Microsloth and W2K/SP4 but that seems to die when I jump on the internet. I've got ideas to try so may have a go this evening (Again!)

Thanks for your help and advice.

Cheers,
Carl.

 

[stefanwagner]

To compile a new driver, you mostly need the kernel-sources.
They are often shipped on the installation-CDs, but not intalled.
They should be in /usr/src/linux-2.x.y

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