Compiling problems in Fedora2

[jim tate]

jim tate wrote:

> Juan Carlos Martin Severiano wrote:
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>>> fedora2, kernel 2.6.6-1.435,Dell Inspiron 8600, trying to get a Intel
>>> Pro2100 PCI wireless card to work.
>>> copyied the hostap-driver-0.1.3 directory to /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435
>>> and did make
>>> and got the following error:
>>>   
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>> You have to change the line 3 of the Makefile to the following:
>>
>> KERNEL_PATH=/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435/
>>
>> since the path that comes by default in the Makefile 
>> (/usr/src/linux/) is
>> wrong.
>>
>> It might be also necessary to run a make oldconfig (from
>> /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435/), in case there is no .config file.
>>
>> Juan Carlos Mart?n Severiano
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>>> Jim Tate
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>>> hostap-driver-0.1.3]# make
>>> Makefile:20: /usr/src/linux/.config: No such file or directory
>>> Makefile:38: WARNING: No kernel PCMCIA support found and PCMCIA_PATH is
>>>   
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>> not defined
>>  
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>>> Makefile:45: WARNING: Linux wireless extensions, CONFIG_NET_RADIO, not
>>>   
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>> enabled in the kernel
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>>> make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/.config'.  Stop.
>>>
>>>   
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> I made the changes as you suggested, when I run the make command, Iget 
> so many
> errors and warnings, I cannot list them all here.
> I believe someone more knowledgable than my self at linux has got to 
> sort this out.
> They have made so many changes to Fedora Core2 that I can't compile 
> anything.
> These are just a few of the examples I get by running  "make"   
> "error: stoage size of" ,  "error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete 
> type" ,
> "warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type" .
>
>
> Thanks for your help
> Jim tate
>
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>This is make oldconfig command, errors.
>
>hostap-driver-0.1.3]# make oldconfig
>Makefile:38: WARNING: No kernel PCMCIA support found and PCMCIA_PATH is not defined
>Makefile:45: WARNING: Linux wireless extensions, CONFIG_NET_RADIO, not enabled in the kernel
>make: *** No rule to make target `oldconfig'.  Stop.
>
>This is the last three erro messages I got from the  make  command, there were so many I can't list them.
>
>make[2]: *** [/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435/hostap-driver-0.1.3/driver/modules/hostap.o] Error 1
>make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435/hostap-driver-0.1.3/driver/modules] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435'
>make: *** [2.6] Error 2
>