i had slack installed for a while, then i decided i wanted to try other distros out, so i made my way over to gentoo, i see a lot of people on here with it.


so here's my problem. i installed gentoo from the livecd, i had to do a networkless install because the only way i can get an internet connection to that computer is through my linksys wusb11 wireless adapter. i had it working on slackware using the driver from http://at76c503a.berlios.de/ at76c503a-0.13 worked perfect for me.

now i tried installing it the same way with gentoo, but when i do make, i get:
anyone have any ideas?

The build directory is usually a symlink back to the kernel sources. For example, on my system it's:
Do you have your kernel sources installed?

how would i check if i do, i know i just did a fresh install of gentoo. would the networkless install have something to do with it?

I haven't used Gentoo, but the 2 ways to check would be either to use its package manager to see what kernel packages are installed or to see what is under /usr/src (if there's nothing there, then the sources probably aren't installed.

I don't think you can have a Gentoo install without having kernel sources installed.

You'll get stuff like "gentoo-sources" "vanilla-sources" etc. See which one is installed from the emerge output.

i did emerge --search sources

a lot of things came up. they all say [not installed].... so how do i fix that with gentoo?

That's weird. But then again I haven't used Gentoo for some time now, so perhaps things have changed a bit and you can have a sys without having the -sources installed.

May I asked how you performed an install? [The new GUI installer thing? And what did you chose at stuff related to the kernel?]

To install sources, just:

(linux source+gentoo patches, or if you want vanilla sources

yeah i used the gtk+ installer. but i can do emerge gentoo-sources without an internet connection, and i cant get an internet connection until i have the sources...