UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

hi,

i have knoppix installed on my harddrive and on my other windows pc, i downloaded a driver for my wireless network card linksys WPC11 v3.

so i dl the driver and put it to floppy, then transfer the floppy disc to my toshiba laptop with knoppix on it. the floppy mnt on the desktop will not open sais mnt file: mnt/auto/floppy does not exist. then through the gui i try to access the floppy and click the floppy under home i believe, and its empty. sais 0 files in it. i know the files are in it. how do i access my floppy. maybe through the console what is the normal linux floppy path?

Check the /etc/fstab to see if the floppy drive is actually pointing to /mnt/auto/floppy.
Are you required to manually mount the floppy, or does Knoppix use supermount?
If you did not issue the command to mount the floppy, then do so.
as root or su
mount /dev/fd0
Then check the directory location to see if the files are showing up under the /mnt/auto/floppy directory.

awesome,

i guess under knoppix it has to b mounted or was not done correctly. i checked the floppy in console after i mounted that command and it was in there. Thanks a bunch you were alot of help.

wow,

i untarred the driver for my card and i dont know what to do. unless this is a one button click thing that installs it automattically, im doomed. theres things like an etc folder in there, makefile file, readme (which i read) docs folder, etc. when installing drivers in linux, this all has to be manually configured or is there a way they have a setup file similar to windows?