Hi there,
I have Fedora 5 running on a Thinkpad laptop.
I'm struggling to get the wireless working, so I installed ndsiwrapper,
and for this purpose I had to download the kernel source (it was not present)

So the ndsiwrapper is installed, the driver installed but still no working wireless.
I read that a possible error is to have the ndsiwrapper compiled with a different kernel version,
and so it is: I'm booting 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 while I downloaded the source for 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5

so here are my questions:
1. should I download the source to the same kernel I'm running (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5), or
is it better to recompile the kernel from the new source (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5)
2. How do I recompile the kernel.

As you already see I'm very new to dealing with linux....
Thanks

If your current kernel is working fine, or if you don't have much practice compiling kernels I'd recommend getting the source for the running kernel.

I can only answer no 2 ... I would say compiling linux kernel is preety easy its an easy how to
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Compiling_a_kernel
http://www.techenclave.com/forums/co...mpiling+kernel