i am an trying to install some drivers

but it asks for my LINUX Source Directory

which is what?


thanks







mandrake 9.1

You need the kernel source installed which is usually in /usr/src/linux

the only thing in /usr/src/ is RPM
there is no linux dir

Help others help you. Tell us what Distro you are using. Tell us what drivers you are trying to install.

Greetings,
What you need to do is download the source and "install" it.

Go to http://www.linux.org and get the official kernel source.

Unzip and untar it in your /usr/src directory.

From /usr/src
--------------------
rm -f linux
ln -s linux-2.x.x linux //the "x" refer to your kernel version
cd /linux

And there you go

i am using mandrake 9.1 and i am trying to install linksys w lan

thanks for point me to the source but i failed to see where in the site to download it from

can you point me a litte further?

Are you trying to install a Network card? What is "linksys w lan"? Please be specific with your questions.

You may already have support for this card, and if not there may be an rpm you could install.

Link on the main page leads to linuxhq, which leads to the source here: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.6/index.html
Make sure you get the source, and not the patch.

He is trying to build something from source. This package will want the source of his running kernel, which is a Mandrake-installed kernel.

uname -a

will tell you which kernel version you are currently running. You will want to install the rpm package for that particular kernel version, using the Mandrake rpm.

If you download the 2.6.0 source, or 2.4.x, you'll end up compiling a kernel also. Are you prepared for that yet?

Official kernels are located at www.kernel.org and not at www.linux.org, just for anyone else that tries to go there, etc.

agreed with above user

mandrake uses its own special kernels so you will need to download the kernel source rpm from mandrake's site

uname -r will help to determine what you need

*note: kernel recompiling should not be required here

Yeah. That, and I'll go curl up in a corner and die now O.O

[admin@192 linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre16]$ uname -r
2.4.21-0.13mdk


i am installing linksys wireless pci adapter v2.7 wmp11


is there an rpm for that or what should i do?
try and install the kernal source?
am i going to have to recompile?
should i just upgrade to 2.6?

Simply going to Google:

http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/ma...1mdk.i586.html

Those are the cooker rpms though. Check your installation media and see if you have the prism2 package available.

Yes, I posted a link to the cooker rpm. Don't use it. Use the one that your normal software routine would provide.

Don't install the kernel source unless you are going to compile a kernel. "Upgrading" to 2.6 won't solve anything.

You should look in the /lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/ directory. I don't know how Mandrake handles inserting and removing kernel modules. The manual way to do this is:

modprobe nameofmodule

or

insmod nameofmodule

You can check currently installed modules with:

lsmod

Have you actually installed the hardware yet? Is it in the output of lspci -v?

01:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4301 802.11b (rev 02)
Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 4301
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 66, IRQ 5
Memory at 42000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>

yes its installed in the computer
and it sees it

i am trying to install the driver
but it asks where my linux source is
and i still havn't gotten a clear answer in what to do about it

i am downloading the fullsorce for my ssytem from kernal.org
its in some weird format *.bz2

what do i do with this file once it is done?