could not find usable .config (note that THERE IS a working symlink!)

[blackstar]

Hello,

I googled for like an hour I keep getting results that ask the user to create a valid symlink. I'm pretty sure my symlink is good so that isnt the problem. I tried googling KBUILD_OUTPUT , set environment var,etc.. but I found nothing that could help me.

What should I do to make "emerge ndiswrapper" work? Why do I get this error message?:

* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory.
* Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources.
* If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that
* it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config.

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/ndiswrapper-1.2-r1 failed.


Thanks in advance

[Cabhan]

Well, first off, IS there a usable .config?

ls /usr/src/linux/.config

Assuming that there is not, you'll need to generate one. Check in /boot to see if the config file was backed up to there (config-2.6.xx). If it was, just copy that to /usr/src/linux/.config. If there is none, you'll need to rerun menuconfig and reset the configuration of your kernel.