waterhead

You need to be in the main folder of the kernel sources. There should be a file called "Makefile" there. The command that I use when compiling a kernel is this.
You may want to try the command that they list in the README file first.
Or try them separately.
This last one makes the most sense to me, so try the two separate commands. You will need to wait for the "make modules" command to finish it's business before entering the "make module_install" command.

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MikeTbob

Try cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.24.7-92.fc8-i686
make && make modules_install

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Nabaachy

Hi!
I have tried all the commads above and they keep giving me the same error, mabe im missing something

[root@localhost 2.6.24.7-92.fc8-i686]# make modules modules_install
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `missing-syscalls'. Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

Any ideas what i should do next?

Nabaachy

waterhead

To do kernel compiling you should have gcc 3.2 installed.

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Nabaachy

Ooopss, now installing compat-gcc-34 and compat-gcc-34-c++

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Nabaachy

Hi
Still the same error shows up. rpm -qa | grep gcc shows:
gcc-4.1.2-33
compat-gcc-34-c++-3.4.6-8
compat-gcc-34-3.4.6-8
libgcc-4.1.2-33

is there any other package that i nedd to install?

Nabaachy

MikeTbob

Make sure you have kernel-headers and kernel-devel installed too.

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waterhead

I think that it won't work because there is no .config file yet. In the same folder, enter this command.This is where you would change the options before compiling a kernel. You don't need to do anything, just exit and say yes to saving the file. The .config file is hidden, and you need to set your file manager to show hidden files if you want to see it (not necessary).

Now try again (fingers crossed).

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Nabaachy

Hi waterhead and MikeTbob!

I have given up hope for my d-link dwl-g650, it was giving me all kinds of errors. and today when i was going through my stuff, i found a d-link dwl-g630 card and a belkin card. For my surprise, as soon as i poped g630 into my lappy, it recognised the card and striaght away i could use it. Its chipset was RaLink RT2561/RT61. but i think the signal strength of this card weaker than the intel card i have. but the belkin card was useless, it had the mimo chipset.

I wanted to thank both of you for your advice and effort to help me, really much appriciated. ::respect::

Nabaachy

MikeTbob

Glad you got it working, and I'm sure after playing with Linux for awhile, you'll probably get them all working with Linux. Enjoy

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