dwl-g520 madwifi troubles

[HectorScout]

I think I might be getting closer. ls -l /usr/src/linux doesn't do anything because that folder doesn't exist. Also, KERNELPATH=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 isn't quite right either apparently. However, I got a new error by setting the KERNELPATH to KERNELPATH=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/ then I get a new error. The current error is:

[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.2.1]# make KERNELPATH=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/
./kernelversion.c:13:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `echo char *uts_release = UTS_RELEASE; | grep -q -i '^[2-9]\.[4-9]\.' || { \'
make: *** [configcheck] Error 2

It looks like it found the .config file it was looking for but still doesn't know where the utsrelease.h file is.

if it helps, here the ls -l on the folder I pointed the KERNELPATH to:

[root@localhost /]# ls -l /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.18/linux-2.6.18.i686/
total 436
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:24 arch
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 block
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 configs
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 18693 Sep 19 21:42 COPYING
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89472 Jan 19 14:25 CREDITS
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 crypto
drwxr-xr-x 59 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 Documentation
drwxr-xr-x 62 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 drivers
drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 fs
drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 include
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 init
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:24 ipc
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1273 Sep 19 21:42 Kbuild
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 kernel
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 lib
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73499 Jan 19 14:25 MAINTAINERS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47870 Jan 19 14:25 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 mm
drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 net
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 16538 Sep 19 21:42 README
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 3065 Sep 19 21:42 REPORTING-BUGS
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:25 scripts
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:24 security
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:24 sound
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 14:24 usr

[MikeTbob]

This is harder than it should be, lets take a different route.
Evidently you have a working connection to the internet, because you have an updated kernel right?
Issue this command
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
Then use yum to install madwifi
yum install madwifi
after that issue this command
neat
Then create a new wireless connection from the GUI.

[HectorScout]

This is harder than it should be, lets take a different route.
Evidently you have a working connection to the internet, because you have an updated kernel right?
Issue this command
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
Then use yum to install madwifi
yum install madwifi
after that issue this command
neat
Then create a new wireless connection from the GUI.

Holy crap! That was so much easier. I wish I had done that two weeks ago. Anyway, it works now. I had to restart to get it to recognize the card before I could configure it but it works now. Thanks so much for the help!

[MikeTbob]

Cool beans, glad you got it working. For future reference, you don't need to reboot the machine, just restart the network with this command as root.
service network restart