Unable to install PCI wireless card drivers in CentOS

[tarun444]

Hello All,
I am new to linux and I need some help in installing the PCI wireless card drivers in CentOS linux. I have "Sabrent PCI-G802 PCI Wireless Card - 54Mbps, 802.11g". I tried looking in google and tried multiple ways to install the driver but failed , I have followed the instructions given in the link i.e.
performed the following steps .....

1.# tar xvzf package.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)
2.# cd package
3.# ./configure
4.# make
5.# make install

I have the original cd (this cd has linux drivers also) which came with the PCI card but its not a plug and play cd like the MS windows, the cd drive is not reading the disk (But i can open it in windows 7). I copied the installation files from the cd to usb drive on my windows 7 PC and copied them on to the CentOS /home/user directory and performed the above mentioned steps. I was successful in getting till the second step. when i did the step 3 the system is asking some thing about

"Linux kernel source directory [/usr/src/2.6.18-92.el5PAE-i386]: Configure"

I just pressed the enter button and it went to the next message which is

"Linux source tree 'Configure' is incomplete or missing!"
Configuration failed

Can you guys please help me install the driver.

Thanks in advance
Tarun

[jselover]

It appears the configure script is looking for your kernel headers and/or devel files. Do you have the kernel-headers and kernel-devel rpms installed?
If not, install them and try configure again.

[tarun444]

At the time of installation it did not ask me for installing the Kernel-devel and kernel-headers. Can you guys please help me understand the installation process.
Do we have to install the kernel-devel and kernel-headers after the installation ??
I just opened the DVD and there are a lot of rpm's in it do i need to execute them all one by one manually??

Thanks in advance
Tarun

[jselover]

The kernel-devel and kernel-headers packages come from CentOS, not the Wifi card's CD.
I am not sure, but I believe CentOS uses 'yum' to install packages.

As root, try:
yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers

If yum installs one or more packages, you are ready to continue from Step 3 of your original post. (ie re-run ./configure in the wifi package's directory)
Hope it helps.