Linux-wlan-ng Trouble

[squirrelplayingtag]

I was using Ubuntu and a simple apt-get install linux-wlan-ng was all I needed to get my usb wireless adapter working. I got tired of ubuntu and my heart truely yurned for vanilla Debian. So I went about installing sarge and upgraded to sid, recompiled my kernel because the readme for linux-wlan-ng says it needs the linux-source tree. So then I do apt-get install linux-wlan-ng and everything appears to go well, no errors. So I try to do modprobe prism2_usb and I get:

FATAL: Module prism2_usb not found.

I removed the linux-wlan-ng package then I tried installing from source. But it couldn't find the Linux source directory even though I changed it to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8. Still nothing.

Did I miss something?

[engineuity]

you dont necessarily have to recompile the kernel to get the source tree. You can apt-get kernel-source-`uname -r` (those are back ticks) and that should install your kernel source for you. Its possible the source tree isnt there after your recompile because you did not enable it?

edit: on a side note, you may want to ln -s /usr/src/kernel-source-x.x.x /usr/src/linux some programs look for your source tree at that location if it isnt specified (/usr/src/linux)