I've been having a problem compiling source code on my system. Every time i run "make", the source code is printed to the console screen. Is that weird?? and then when i run "make install" there's tons of errors. I have the build-essential package, but I don't know what else I should have.

I'm trying to compile a driver for my wireless ethernet card. I got the source code from the manufacturer's web page. The problem that i'm having with this is a little bit different. Here's the output:

giusi@giusiAndTheDell:~/Desktop/b44-1.00g$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/build SUBDIRS=/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
CC [M] /home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.o
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c:10:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c: In function ‘b44_open’:
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c:1546: warning: ‘deprecated_irq_flag’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/interrupt.h:66)
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c:1546: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘request_irq’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c: In function ‘b44_resume’:
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c:2563: warning: ‘deprecated_irq_flag’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/interrupt.h:66)
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c:2563: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘request_irq’ from incompatible pointer type
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c: In function ‘b44_init’:
/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.c:2599: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_module_init’
make[2]: *** [/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g/b44.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/giusi/Desktop/b44-1.00g] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-14-generic'
make: *** [default] Error 2

I dont know what's wrong..it's really frustrating because I haven't been able to compile anything from source.
Any thoughts or tips would be great!

giuseppe

Kernel headers are not installed?

When you get errors while running "make" it will tell you what's wrong. You can ignore the warnings most of the time but as you see, there is one error here.

As Emerson pointed out this may mean that the kernel headers probably are not installed.

The problem here is that in kernel 2.6.19 the file linux/config.h was removed. So it seems that the driver you are trying to compile is too old for the standard gutsy kernel (which is 2.6.22).

So unless you want to downgrade to an older kernel version (which I do not recommend, since it probably will break your whole system) you should try to find out if there is a more recent version of the driver which will work with a more recent kernel.

Regards,