Help with kernel source installation
Hello all I'm trying to compile the linux-wlan drivers. To do so I need to have the kernel source installed. I am not new to linux, but I am new to debian and therefore I am a bit lost. I have installed it kernel 2.4.18bf. When building the wlan drivers I was asked for the kernel source, so I installed the kernel-source-2.4.18-5 package. However during the configuration of the wlan drivers' source I am told that the kernel source is incomplete or broken in some way. I guess that is because there is no .config file. Looking in the distribution files I found a kernel-config file packaged with each kernel flavour. So the question is would the following steps be correct for setting up the kernel source tree: 1. Install kernel-source-2.4.18-5 package 2. Uncompress and untar /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18-5.tar.bz2 3. Symbolic link /usr/src/linux --> kernel-source-2.4.18-5 4. cp kernel-config to /usr/src/linux/.config Would that be right??? Any help appretiated Cheers Charles / // Charles García-Tobin ""-. // Toy Designer /[] _ _\ // Software and _|_o_LII|_ // Firmware engineer/ | | \ // |_| |_| // ||" || || // ||LI o || // ||''|| // Creature Labs/__||__\ /
RE: Help with kernel source installation
Hi Andrew Thanks for your e-mail and offering to help, it is very kind of you. >Dear Charles, > Could you please describe the linux-wlan drivers in a bit more >detail please. Can you give us a URL, are they proprietary modules, or >do they come included with the kernel source? What brand, model? I cannot give you the exact error message at the moment as my computer is at home and I'm at the office :-( I can give you the URL which is www.linux-wlan.org The device I am trying for is an Actiontech USB 80211b card. I believe that the drivers can be included in the kernel source and compiled with it, but generally they are done post-kernel compilation, to create modules. The machine is Toshiba 440CDT laptop which runs a P133MMX, with 32Mb of RAM. I know its a very poor machine but my plan is to create a baby home network gateway with it. I actually changed to Debian because people on the linux-wlan list reported success when using debian. Thanks again Chalres
