[CentOS] 4.92 and new HP dv9000 laptop

Mon Mar 26 13:26:33 UTC 2007
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:14:42AM -0400, Jerry Geis enlightened us:
> The new 4.92 installed nicely on this laptop...
> I am trying to get wireless networking going.
> I installed XEN.
> 
> my kernel is 2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen
> 
> I downloaded ipw3945-linux-1.2.0
> This told me do download ieee80211-1.2.16
> 
> So when I try to compile ieee80211 it tells me
> find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build/: No such file or directory
> egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build//.config: No such file or 
> directory
> egrep: 
> /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No 
> such file or directory
> find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build/: No such file or directory
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build: No such file or 
> directory.  Stop.
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> 
> the build directory is a symbolic link to /usr/src/kernels....
> 
> This directory is missing.
> 
> What yum command do I execute to get it?
> 

You'll need to install the matching kernel-devel package for your kernel.
I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to determine the appropriate
command to do so.

Matt

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