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mprice74 · 08-15-2003, 08:44 PM

Ok heres the deal. I've got a Dell Inspiron 1100. After doing some research I got the Broadcom drivers (a tar ball and an rpm package).

At the command line (as root - at root) I issued the following command:

rpm - ivh bcm5700-6.2.17-1.src.rpm

Ok now that did something.

Then, when I cd to /usr/src/redhat just like the README file says that came with the drivers, and issue the command:

rpm -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec

Redhat comes back saying -bb: unknown option

So now what do I do? I couldn't get rpmbuild to work either. Redhat says bash: rpmbuild: command not found

Any suggestions?

fancypiper · 08-15-2003, 09:59 PM

Were you full root? Is rpmbuild installed?To change to the root account, use these commands from your user account. Note the change in the prompt.

Code:

[fancy@tinwhistle fancy]$ su -
Password: 
[root@tinwhistle root]#

rpmquery --all | grep -i rpmbuild

# Guides to software management
LNAG - How do I install a program I downloaded from the Internet?
Rute Guide's software explanation
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Configure X server:
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