[Madwifi-users] installing madwifi in Linux-Mandrake 8.0 Powerpack

[Charles K. J. <fra...@ya...>]

I'm trying to install the madwifi driver in Linux-Madrake 8.0 Powerpack edition 
and having a problem. I am following the instructions given under old guides - 
guide two (although I gewt the same error trying to use guide one)

The error is this, when I try to do the make of madwifi I get an error message 
saying "only supported kernel versions 2.4.xx and up. But the kernel version 
for Mandrake 8.0 is 2.4.3. So I can't understand why its not working.

I did the 'urpmi kernel-source gcc cvs' and that worked fine, but when I try to 
do '  cd madwifi 
      make 
      sudo make install '

or '  root@machine:/root/# cd /home/user/madwifi
      root@machine:/home/user/madwifi/# KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` make
      root@machine:/home/user/madwifi/# KERNELRELEASE=`uname -r` make install
      root@machine:/home/user/madwifi/# modprobe ath_pci '

I get the error message saying only kernel version 2.4.xx and up supported.

In case it helps, I'm running this all on an AMD 500 Mhz, with Linux installed 
on a 4 gig drive (set up as the second HD or HdB) 

The Linux-Mandrake is basically installed 'out of the box' with everything 
installed except the server packages.

Anyone have any ideas? If you have advice or help please send a direct email to 

fra...@ya...

(Be sure to put something in the subject line about 'help with madwifi' or 
something like that, so I won't think its SPAM)

I'd really appreciate any help anyone can supply