[Madwifi-users] Re: Problems building driver for DLINK DWL-G650 (Fedora Core 1)

[Robert B. <rb...@gl...>]

Darren Grant wrote:
> I've just done a fresh install of Fedora Core 1 on my Sony Vaio laptop. I've
> got a DLINK DWL-G650 wifi card and I've checked using lspci to confirm that
> it's using the atheros chipset.
> 
> I've downloaded madwifi from sourceforge but when I try and run make, I get
> the following error:
> 
> Makefile.inc:98: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/build/.config: No such file
> or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target
> `/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/build/.config'.  Stop.
> 
> The 'build' symbolic link in /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl seems to
> pointing to the right place i.e.
> 
> [root@nomad 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl]# ls -ald build
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           41 Nov 27 18:44
> build ->../../../usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
> 
> But the make process seems to be looking for a .config file in this build
> directory. How does this get created? This link points to
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and the contents of this directory are
> show below (minus the missing .config file!).
> 
> drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Nov 27 20:35 .
> drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         4096 Nov 27 20:36 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   20 root     root         4096 Nov 27 20:34 arch
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 27 20:34 configs
[snipped]

Darren in this configs directory you should see several files of the
form, 'kernel[].config'
Simply copy or symlink the one that corresponds to your system into
the build directory.

Hope this helps,
Robert