Installing wireless driver..

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Wed Feb 9 19:51:26 UTC 2011


Monty wig wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> I am trying to configure wireless network on my thinkpad T61 running "Red
> Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)" from
> /etc/redhat-release.
>
> I downloaded the firmware and the module package from intel and trying to
> build the module for my wireless NIC using these instructions (
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=howto-iwlwifi) but somehow
> its not working and not giving me any errors either...
>
> root at apples - /tmp/iwlwifi-1.2.25 --> make
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/source
> O=/lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5/build M=/tmp/iwlwifi-1.2.25/compatible/
> EXTRA_CFLAGS="-DCONFIG_IWL3945_DEBUG=y -DCONFIG_IWL4965_DEBUG=y
> -DCONFIG_IWL3945_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y
> -DCONFIG_IWL4965_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y -DCONFIG_IWL4965_SENSITIVITY=y
> -DCONFIG_IWL3945_QOS=y -DCONFIG_IWL4965_QOS=y" modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64'
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-194.el5-x86_64'
>
> Has anyone build the module for "Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN" successfully
> then can you please tell me what am I missing?

It looks like it succeded. Did you then do make install?

      mark "./configure;make;make install"




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