Kernel Source file issues

[sburggsx]

Ok, I'm trying to get wireless networking up and running on a new install of Debian. This is my first permanent install of linux in years so just consider me a complete nooB. This is on a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop and the wireless card is a D-Link DWL-G630. But before any of that can come into play I have to get some type of driver installed.

So far I've tried both Madwifi and the ndiswrapper installs and both have failed with similar errors. Madwifi can't find "/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/build/.config" and ndiswrapper "Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.4.27-2-386/build;". Both pointing to the kernel source not being where it wants it. I've used apt-get to install the kernel-headers and kernel-source (kernel-devel doesn't exisit as far as I can tell) with absolutely no luck. Yes, I un-tarred the source files in the /lib/modules dir.

I've done google searches and forum searches with lots of results of the problems but with very little results. Does anyone know where I need to go from here?

Steve

[antidrugue]

You may have better luck using a 2.6 kernel :

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686

on Debian Sarge.

[sburggsx]

Well I sucessfully upgraded to the 2.6 kernel and everything seems to run fine. When I went to compile madwifi I get the exact same thing only asking for the 2.6 directories. Whatever I am doing I'm not getting the build directory and the build/.config files installed where the make wants to see them. Can anyone point me where I need to look?

Steve

[sburggsx]

FINALLY!!!

After attempting to get ndiswrapper to work I came across the answer to my own question.

If you use precompiled kernel, make sure also that your kernel sources have exact same kernel configuration used for compiling kernel e.g., copy kernel configuration from /proc/config.gz or /boot/config-<version> into /lib/modules/uname -r/build/.config, such as gunzip < /proc/config.gz > /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config. Then recompile and install ndiswrapper.

Hopefully this will help someone in the future... now, back to figuring out what the next error while complile madwifi means.

Steve

[punktde]

After copying config file to /lib/modules/2.6.16-4-smp/build directory (something like that), now i got another problem..


Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... FAILED
Only kernel versions 2.4.x and above are supported.
You have .
make: *** [configcheck] Error 1

Any suggestion?

[antidrugue]

After copying config file to /lib/modules/2.6.16-4-smp/build directory (something like that), now i got another problem..

Can you give more details? What are you refering to? What are you trying to do? Which wireless card?

[punktde]

I have netgear wg511u wlan card pcmcia and i want to use it under suse 10.1 with madwifi drivers.
First i try to compile using make, then i got error message that madwifi cant find /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/build/.config, something like that. Then i try to copy the .config file from /proc/config.gz into /lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/build ,but then i got error message like
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... FAILED
Only kernel versions 2.4.x and above are supported.
You have .
make: *** [configcheck] Error 1

I've looking everywhere for the solution, but i just stuck until here.
Any help? Thanks

[antidrugue]

You might want to check this "madwifi" how-to, tailored for Suse 10.1 :
http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/05/2...ed-wifi-cards/

[punktde]

I try to follow the instructions on the link u gave to me, now here is the log files...

punktde:/ # cd /usr/src/linux
bash: cd: /usr/src/linux: No such file or directory
punktde:/ # cd /usr/src
punktde:/usr/src #
punktde:/usr/src #
punktde:/usr/src # dir
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 128 Jul 6 00:39 ATI
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Jul 6 13:08 kernel-modules
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 96 Jul 7 21:52 linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 168 Jul 5 22:42 packages

As u can see i didnt have linux folders but i have linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj folder, so...

punktde:/usr/src # cd linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj
punktde:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj # make mrproper
make: *** No rule to make target `mrproper'. Stop.
punktde:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj # make cloneconfig
make: *** No rule to make target `cloneconfig'. Stop.
punktde:/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.13-4-obj # make modules_prepare
make: *** No rule to make target `modules_prepare'. Stop.

Whats goin on here? Should i go with yast and reinstall the kernel which is about 52Mb big? Will my system crash if i delete the kernel and then install it again?

Another question, whats the different between kernel and kernel-smp? Is kernel-smp for multiprocessor computer?, as my laptop have intel centrino duo.
Thanks for the help

[kbensit]

punktde:/ # cd /usr/src/linux
bash: cd: /usr/src/linux: No such file or directory
punktde:/ # cd /usr/src
punktde:/usr/src #
punktde:/usr/src #
punktde:/usr/src # dir

I'm having the same problem here bro with my pc, I have been trying to get this netgear wireless card (WG311T PCI) working for a week now with no luck, I'm very new at linux, if you can help with any thing I really appreciated, I'm using suse10.1 IBM Netvista Pentium 4, everything works great till this wireless thing.
Thanks in advance