Disappearing files

[band-aid]

I am trying to compile the hostap drivers. I have downloaded the tar.gz file and extracted it onto my desktop. When I try to run "make" it says that the make file in the driver/modules folder is missing (this is the one in the extracted hostap driver folder). I browsed to that directory and sure enough the module directory is void of anything. I found this weird, deleted the hostap folder and re-extracted it. This time I first browsed to the modules directory and it had many .c files and the make file. I backed out to the top directory in my hostap folder and ran "make" again. It said that the makefile was missing. This really confused me. I rebrowsed to the the modules directory and sure enough it was empty again. I have repeated this exercise many times and the result is always the same. Can anyone shed any light over why these files are disappearing whenever I try to "make" them?

[Franklin52]

You must have the kernel-headers installed on your system.
Google for how to do it for your distro.

Regards