Installing rt2500 on fedora Core 4

bobinglis · 07-28-2005, 08:00 AM

I've managed to install the drivers on Slack no prob, but fedora gives this o/p:
[root@bobshost bob]# lspci | grep RaLink
00:0a.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
[root@bobshost bob]# cd /home/bob/RT2500/source/rt2500/Module/
[root@bobshost Module]# make
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
rt2500.ko failed to build!
make: *** [module] Error 1
Has anyone installed these drivers on Fedora Core 4?
There does not seem to be anything in /usr/src on the distro.

johnbull · 07-30-2005, 08:30 AM

In looking at the message you got:

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

This is saying that it could not find the kernel source code for the specific kernel that it detects as running. You need to download the kernel sources as well. For every version of kernel source you have installed, that respective tree will be setup under /usr/src

But your own words saying that there is nothing under /usr/src is actually the ticket. Get the kernel sources and try again.

I hope this helps. Good luck.

equinox · 07-30-2005, 09:23 AM

It is not neccessary to have the full kernel source tree to build modules, you just need the devel package, eg:

Code:

rizon:michael | Sat 30 Jul 2005 04:21:54 PM SAST | ~
$ rpm -qa | grep kernel | grep "\-devel*"
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4

johnbull · 07-30-2005, 09:26 AM

That's what I meant; sorry.

Thanks for the correction, equinox ............

bobinglis · 07-30-2005, 12:49 PM

Thanks Guys,
I knew what I needed, not how to get it from RH, its there now OK,
much appreciate your help