installing USB wireless adapter DWL-G122

[ellicha]

Hi there ! Sorry for my poor english; I'm new in this forum and new in using linux too
I've a problem:
I can't install usb wireless adapter DWL-G122 in my Suse 10.1.
I've tried with ndswrapper but it didn't work. I've tried to following a tutorial at that link SUSE 10.1 and RT2500 Wi-Fi « Linux and Open Source Blog, but when I start to compile the driver i receive a message that i can't write module into directory usr/src.......linux ....
I'm very upset; it's all the day that i'm trying; here it's 2 a.m.... Please help me !
Thanks in advance,
Achille

[MikeTbob]

Hi there ! Sorry for my poor english; I'm new in this forum and new in using linux too
I've a problem:
I can't install usb wireless adapter DWL-G122 in my Suse 10.1.
I've tried with ndswrapper but it didn't work. I've tried to following a tutorial at that link SUSE 10.1 and RT2500 Wi-Fi « Linux and Open Source Blog, but when I start to compile the driver i receive a message that i can't write module into directory usr/src.......linux ....
I'm very upset; it's all the day that i'm trying; here it's 2 a.m.... Please help me !
Thanks in advance,
Achille

Welcome and Hello!
Make sure you login as root when you do this, it's the only answer I can think of.

[ellicha]

Thankyou for your answer
i've done this as root but nothing....
I have installed kernel-source yesterday, becouse I hadn't it (mabe when I have installed Linux i didn't choose to save source). Could be that i have to compile it ? mabe the answer "no rule to make target 'module' in usr/src/lunux2.6xxxx/default..." it dipends that the source is not reffered to that linux version....
Or someone knows another walkthrue to install this USB wireless adaptor ??
Thanks in advance,
Ciao,
Achille

[Dooghy]

If you're doing this as root user, then you can do anything.

Can you post what errors you get when you try to compile the module for your wireless adapter?

[ellicha]

Hi Dooghy !
Thankyou for your answer; this is the answer that I receive when i try to compile the drivers of my adaptor:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.21-0.25-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.16.21-0.25-obj/i386/default'
rt2500.ko failed to build!
make: *** [module] Error 1

Well, I guess this driver need a new version of kernel (2.6.22......);
How can i do ??
Thankyoy in advance,
Achille

[ellicha]

About the module I'm trying to install:
name: rt2570-cvs-2007061715
I've red in the readme file that is should be work with kernel series 2.4 and 2.6
....I can't understand why I can't compile it with make....
Thanks again in advance,
Achille

[gogalthorp]

did you uncompress the file you downloaded?

[ellicha]

Yes, I have decompressed it in a directory in that forlder /usr/src/
tar -xvf rt2570-cvs-daily.tar
there are a list of files, with Makefile, etc. like always when you have to comppile....

[gogalthorp]

did you use

./make

??? To force the make to work on the current directory.

[ellicha]

I've tried but no result ;( I can't understand what's meaning "No rule to make target `modules'."...;
I'll edit Makefile and then I'll post the directive inside it to build the target 'modules' ....
I hope that someone can helps me;
Thanks again to all,
Achille