Wireless Card Driver

[Smikail]

I am new to Linux and I am trying to learn how it works. I have installed Open Suse 10.2 on an old IBM laptop that is suffering while it is running WinXP, the only problem is the wireless card Driver.

the card should work with madwifi ( I found that by research), I downloaded the madwifi and extracted it to a directory ,I opened a terminal,in the directory containing the "makefile" and typed "make" as per the installation instructions on the madwifi,

That gived me an error message:

/bin/sh: cc command not found
Makefile.inc:81:*** can not detect Kernel version - please check compiler amd KERNELPATH. STOP"

How Can I find the compiler and if it is not installed where can I download it? and what is the Kernelpath? directory name?

Thanks for your help

Smikail

[gogalthorp]

You need to install the kernel source. This is included on the CD/DVD but is not installed by default

go to
Yast-Software-Software Management

Type kernel-source in the search box

Install.

Here is some help on installing via Yast

Hacking openSUSE 10.2 - Software in Review

and on this form

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ence-material/

[Smikail]

Thank you for your help,

I managed to install the Kernel source and the compiler and made the driver.