[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - Activating laptop wireless card

[Akemi Yagi]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Andrew Allen<andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:

> Trying to install the driver for my bcm4311 wireless card, I've
> downloaded the driver package from
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>
> and followed the instructions in the readme file, untared it in the
> directory hybrid_wl.
> When I try to build the LKM using
> # make -C/lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/build M='pwd'
> I get the error message make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/build: No
> such file or directory.  Stop.
> Any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong please?

First make sure you have the kernel-devel package that *matches* your
running kernel.

Then try:

make -C/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M='pwd'

Akemi