[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - Activating laptop wireless card - problems installing bcm4311 driver

[Akemi Yagi]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Andrew Allen<andy.allen at virgin.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 12:32 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:

>> 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'
>>
> Thanks,
> Yum installed kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 OK
 (snip)
> so when I type hybrid_wl]# make -C/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M='pwd'
>
> why am I still getting
>
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/build: No such file or directory.
> Stop.

This indicates your *running* kernel is 2.6.18-8.el5.  Please reboot
the system to the latest kernel 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.  Then it should
work.  To see what kernel rpms you have, issue the command:

rpm -qa kernel\* | sort

Akemi