Re: [Madwifi-users] Help installing on Fedora Core 2

[Satish B. <ba...@fa...>]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Daniel Ray Jones wrote:

> I apologize if the answer to my question is obvious, but I'm very new to Linux (I installed it
> yesterday, and have used an older version of Red Hat years ago for about a month).
> I first tried to install the file:
> kernel-module-madwifi-0.0.20040312-0_2.4.22_1.2174.nptl.rhfc1.dag.i686.rpm, with a failed
> dependencies error, saying I needed  madwifi-utils, which I found, downloaded, and installed, then
> tried installing the driver again, and got another failed dependency error, saying
> "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl is needed by
> kernel-module-madwifi-0.0.20040312-0_2.4.22_1.2174.nptl.rhfc1.dag".
> What is this vmlinuz-xxx.nptl, and where can I get it, if I in fact need it? Or am I installing it
> wrong?
> I'm running Fedora Core 2, with the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel, and the driver is for my D-Link DWL-G520
> 802.11g PCI Adapter.
>

You have FC2 installed - but then - trying to install
kernel-module-madwifi built for an FC1 kernel.

I'll sugest:

- install updates to FC2 via up2date or yum ( this should install
   kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 )
- install
   kernel-module-madwifi-2.6.6-1.435.2.3-0.8.5.5-7.rhfc2.at.i686.rpm
   from: http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/madwifi

You might also have to install atrpms-56-1.rhfc2.at.i386.rpm from
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/atrpms/

Satish