• Norgur@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    Back in the day, when I installed my very first Linux OS, I had a wireless stick from Netgear. Wireless Drivers back then were abysmal, so I had to compile them from source (literally 15 mins after seeing a TTY for the first time). After I had found out how build-dependencies and such worked somehow and ./configure completed successfully for the first time, the script ended with the epic line:

    configure done. Now type 'make' and pray

    • Ananace@lemmy.ananace.dev
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      3 days ago

      Ah, I had one of those wireless sticks from Netgear as well, probably a different model but still a royal pain to get it working.
      Luckily ndiswrapper has become a thing of the past nowadays.