Ok, so I'm <stumped>. I'm running Debian Sid for armel, booting on a microSD card partition. I am using a cross compiled kernel from the git.openmoko.org site (2.6.24).

My problem is that I need to compile a different wireless driver for a rt73 based USB wifi card (WUSB54GC) that uses ieee80211 vs mac80211; the driver in the git tree is not adequate for me.

I need the kernel headers obviously to build the module, but there aren't any for this kernel in either the Debian Sid repo or the Openmoko repo. How can I build this driver if I don't have headers?


What would be my best approach to getting the driver built?

Is there a kernel sources package for your kernel in the repository? That would serve the same purpose, as far as I know.

No, but I figured out that I can make ARCH=arm headers_install where then it is found in ./usr/include

1. You need to set up a cross-compiler
2. You need the kernel source for your kernel
3. You need to configure the kernel, possibly even build it, using the same configuration as before

To get the configuration, see if there is a configuration file in the 'boot' directory on the initrd image. Otherwise, if the device can be accessed while it runs and the kernel has been configured to provide it, /proc/config.gz gives you the (compressed) configuration.