I need help to know how to install applications, install a proper audio driver, video driver (screen resolution is small and sound is very quiet), and how to install a wireless Linksys card. Thank you so much! I am a new user and I don't know how to do anything

Welcome akumar! I cannot answer all of your questions, but I can at least tell you how to install programs. I am using Vector Standard 5.8, but it should be similiar. Click on the V at the bottom left of the page. Then select System and then GSlapt Package Manager. From there you can search for what youd like.

Can you give any more hardware details? I just installed Vector on a Dell Latitude CPi with a Linksys WPC54G card and there were a few steps involved. Vector loaded BCM43XX as a driver so that had to be removed...
In a shell terminal I typed...

rmmod BCM43XX

Then I edited my Blacklist file. MC stands for "midnight commander" and is a handy file manager/navigator so typing MC will bring up the program. I went to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist (I think thats the correct path)....Midnight commander has a built in file viewer and editor) and just added BCM43XX at the end of the file.


Also, I had to install my windows drivers by using NDISWRAPPER. I copied pretty much all of the Linksys files that I downloaded from Linksys for this card onto a usb drive (I copied the whole unzipped folder into a folder called linksys). My USB drive mounted automatically so the exact location of it was /mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1 so I typed...

cd /mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1/linksys
then typed
ls
(that'll show whats on my usb stick)
The file I needed was lbscmnds.inf so while in that folder I typed...

ndiswrapper -i libcmnds.inf
(the -i means install)
otherwise I'd have to explicity define the location of the file...
ndiswrapper -i /mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1/linksys/libcmnds.inf
now I had to activate it by typing...
modprobe ndiswrapper

I checked to see if it loaded by typing...
lsmod
and it showed all of the modules that were loaded (and it was).
I think if you type "modprobe -m ndiswrapper" it'll write it into the config files and load automatically next time (not sure though)

Now, when I typed "iwconfig" it showed that I now had an network interface called "wlan0"

my essid name for my router is called "myrouter" si I typed...
iwconfig wlan0 essid "myrouter"
then I typed...
dhcpd wlan0
and it autoconfigured my connection through my router.

Also, by typing "ndiswrapper -l" it listed all of the files ndiswrapper had associated with it (Vector had loaded a bunch ) and I removed them by typing...
ndiswrapper -r xxxxxx (where xxxx is the name of the file) and did this for every one except for lbscmnds.

If my ndiswrapper fails to load on reboot, I don't have to point to the file on my usb stick, I just have to type "ndiswrapper lbscmnds.inf".

I'm pretty new also, hopefully this gets you somewhere.

mcmahonc:

I have been using my Broadcom card with Linux for about 2 years. Only once did Ndiswrapper work for me. It is a good tool, but not too consistant when it comes to Broadcom. So I am not too sure how to use it... But what helped me get going was this tutorial I found on the VL forums. Note that you may have to skip down a few steps if your card is already recognized.

http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum2/in...2&topic=1282.0

Let me know how it goes.