I'm attempting to compile the drivers for my wireless network adapter. I have a Linksys USB network adapter (WUSB11, v2.5), I'm running Redhat 8.0, and I'm using the tarball that Linksys offers for download on their site. I set it to compile just the USB portion of the driver using "make config", which is what the instructions included with the driver source told me to do.

The compile process halts in the file prism2wext.c due to an undefined symbol error (the symbol in question being "SIOCSIWNAME", which is being used in a switch statement that makes me think it's come kind of constant). I grepped through the source directory and failed to find it mentioned anywhere else. Could I be missing a library or something that the driver needs to compile? Has anyone else ever run into this problem?

I'm new to Linux, so if this is an obvious problem and I'm too much of a newbie to spot it, I apologize. :)

Have you installed the kernel source code? Drivers need kernel source code in order to compile.

This is a HOWTO I found on your USB adapter... I think... Maybe this can help you out. It's the top link that you might need.

http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pliszka/hints/wireless.html

Good Luck

Hey,
you want to configure a wireless network card that's a linksys - here's how. First, forget the wlan_g drivers, they're me arse, second forget the linksys site, they are also me arse. This works...but you have to enter everything exactly as it is here.
first, type /sbin/cardctl ident
now write down the manfid numbers for your card, making sure that it's plugged in
pico or vi or whatever /etc/pcmcia/hermes.conf
and write this data in it
device "orinoco_cs"
class "network"
module "hermes", "orinoco", "orinoco_cs"
#Linksys WPC11
card "Instant Wireless Network PC Card"
manfid 0x0000, 0x0000 #write down those manfid numbers here
bind "orinoco_cs"

now
modprobe orinoco_cs orinoco hermes

lsmod to check that they are loaded.

Now, create file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

write in it
DEVICE=wlan0
USERCTL=yes
ONBOOT=no
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

save it
then chmod 777 /etc/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
then type /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart

you will hear a beep and your card will work

now type
neat
and a gui will pop up
select new connection->wireless connection->lucent orinoco blah device
accept the defaults and click activate
and you should be online and able to use samba

tell me if any problems
munnki

I finally got it working this morning. I learned a valuable lesson - When an OEM has a version of a driver on their site with "pre" in the version number, it's a good idea to go get the latest stable release from the author of the driver. This is right up there with the first lesson I learned about compiling your own kernel - if you have your hard drive formatted in ext3, make sure you compile ext3 support (kernel panic is fun).

Anyway, all the extra pages and docs you guys pointed out helped a lot with getting the driver actually installed and configured once it was compiled. Thanks!