[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - Activating laptop wireless card - problems installing bcm4311 driver
Andrew Allen
andy.allen at virgin.net
Tue Sep 8 10:46:14 UTC 2009
On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 12:32 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> 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'
>
Thanks,
Yum installed kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 OK
# cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ gets to directory OK and
# dir gives
build modules.dep modules.pcimap updates
extra modules.ieee1394map modules.seriomap weak-updates
kernel modules.inputmap modules.symbols
modules.alias modules.isapnpmap modules.usbmap
modules.ccwmap modules.ofmap source
# ls -la build gives
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 Nov 4 2007 build
-> ../../../usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-8.el5-i686
Is this OK?
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.
Any suggestions gratefully received,
Andy
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