Re: D-Link DWL 520 Wireless card

[Tim McGaha <tmcgaha1 comcast net>]

sean bruno wrote:

> Do you have the kernel source RPM installed?
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> On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 20:26, Tim McGaha wrote:
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> > sean bruno wrote:
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> > > You will need to copy your kernel config  file to your kernel source
> > > directory:
> > >
> > > cp /usr/src/linux/config/<your kernel config file>
> > > /usr/src/linux/.config
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 19:51, Tim McGaha wrote:
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> > > > Ive racked my little brain all evening trying to get a DWL 520 wireless 
> > > > NIC card working on FC2 on my home machine.  I have been trying a number 
> > > > of different things and just can't make any headway.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to install th hostap driver and I get these mesages.  I'm not 
> > > > sure how to configure the kernel for CONF_NET_RADIO
> > > >
> > > > root TimsFC2 hostap-driver-0.2.0]# make
> > > > Makefile:20: /usr/src/linux/.config: No such file or directory
> > > > Makefile:38: WARNING: No kernel PCMCIA support found and PCMCIA_PATH is 
> > > > not defined
> > > > Makefile:45: WARNING: Linux wireless extensions, CONFIG_NET_RADIO, not 
> > > > enabled in the kernel
> > > > make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/.config'.  Stop.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone know an easier way to make a simple wireless NIC work?
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> > I don't see any /usr/src/linux/ directory
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> > I see /usr/src/redhat, debug, and hostapdriver
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I guess not.  It doesn't show it installed when I look at what synaptic 
tells me.  Should it be the source for the kernel I and booting with?  I 
know, stupid question.  I'm a real newbie but I'm not completely 
clueless.  I am egar to learn as much as possible.