I have recently purchased a 3COM 3CRDAG675 Wireless PCI adapter, and am trying to get it to run on my RedHat 9 system. I have kept the kernel up to date using up2date, and am currently on 2.4.20-30.9. I grabbed the madwifi drivers from CVS, and went to install. When I run Make, however, I get what you see below.

The present kernel configuration has modules disabled.
Type 'make config' and enable loadable module support.
Then build a kernel with module support enabled.

I am a linux newbie, of course, and am unsure where to go from here. If it is the case, how do I find what modules are needed, but disabled? Where would I learn to go about building a kernel with those modules enabled? Has anyone else run into this issue?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David Franklin




[root@rhpug madwifi]# make
for i in ./ath_hal ./wlan ./driver; do \
(cd $i; make); \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/madwifi/ath_hal'
make -C /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9/build SUBDIRS=/madwifi/ath_hal modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9'

The present kernel configuration has modules disabled.
Type 'make config' and enable loadable module support.
Then build a kernel with module support enabled.

make[2]: *** [modules] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/madwifi/ath_hal'
make[1]: Entering directory `/madwifi/wlan'
make -C /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9/build SUBDIRS=/madwifi/wlan modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9'

The present kernel configuration has modules disabled.
Type 'make config' and enable loadable module support.
Then build a kernel with module support enabled.

make[2]: *** [modules] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/madwifi/wlan'
make[1]: Entering directory `/madwifi/driver'
make -C /lib/modules/2.4.20-30.9/build SUBDIRS=/madwifi/driver modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9'

The present kernel configuration has modules disabled.
Type 'make config' and enable loadable module support.
Then build a kernel with module support enabled.

make[2]: *** [modules] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-30.9'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/madwifi/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2



[root@rhpug madwifi]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet Controller (rev 01)
01:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 0013 (rev 01)

For anyone else having this problem, I solved by doing the following:

If you've just installed a RedHat kernel package, have all of the correct symlinks, and it still won't work, then it could be because you don't have a built/configured kernel. To fix this problem (without building a new kernel):

cp /boot/config-{kernel_version} /lib/mobules/{kernel_version}/build/.config

You should then find that it works, thanks to Donald Wheeler for this tip.

Check out this FAQ:

http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm#get