Hey everyone!

First off I would like to thank this site for being absolutely amazing as it has answered nearly every one of my linux questions I have had after installing Fedora Core 2. Now all I need is some help getting my

Netgear MA111 802.11b Wireless USB Adapter

to work with Fedora Core 2. I have searched high and low on this site for directions on how to do this but couldn't find it. I am a linux newbie so please give detailed instructions

Thank you very much for your time!

Nobody??

That is run with the linux-wlan-ng drivers. Check out this for a reasonable explanation of how to install these drivers.

By the way, you shouldn't double post and if you need to bump your post, please wait for 24 hours.

Hey,

Sorry about the double posting

I am having a lot of trouble using this driver in FC2 because it keeps saying that the directory for my kernel source has only header information and not enough information or something like that.

Is there any other way to do this for a newbie like myself? (ie: a precompiled kernel, an update of yum... etc....)

Thanks!

Since you are running FC, I'd google around for an rpm of linux-wlan-ng. That might save you the pain of compiling it yourself. Just be sure that whoever compilied it did so for your version of the kernel. Since linux-wlan-ng isn't part of the kernel, you're not very likely to find a pre-compiled kernel that will support this card. Unfortunately wireless access isn't as easy as it should be in linux. This is entirely the fault of the card manufacturers since they rarely release linux drivers.

Essentially any driver is going to be a kernel module and to successfully build it, you need to have the kernel source code installed. I know that you can do that from an rpm either from your CD or from the Red Hat site. Again, you need to be sure that the source code you install matches the kernel version that you are running.

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The one thing I do blame distro providers for is their refusal to make the kernel sources and gcc compilers part of a standard newbie install. Sooner or later (and usually sooner) everyone needs to compile a driver for some piece of hardware and the kernel source and a full install of gcc are required for this. Yes I know that kernel sources are large, but so freakin' what? We're installing an OS here. Not installing them only causes confusion later on. I'll bet a significant number of newbies have given up at this stage just because necessary tools aren't installed automatically.
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Sorry, just had to get that off my chest.

Hmm i may have to wait a while because I am way to new to linux to be recompiling kernels o.O why hasn't yum come out with an update to do this for you??

Actually, it is likely you don't have to recompile your kernel, you just have to have the kernel source code available for the linux-wlan-ng driver to compile correctly. That said, some drivers actaully do need to have a compiled kernel (some files aren't available until the kernel is compiled) but I honestly don't remember if this driver is among them.

If you do find a compiled RPM for you kernel, then you wouldn't have to compile at all.

Alright; thanks for the responses. I'll search around; let me know if you find any

Hi everyone.
I am trying to do the same thing that 07mackenzie is doing, but I am having a problem when trying to run ./Configure. The problem I think is that I have updated to Kernel 2.6.7-rc2, and now when I try to update, it asks for the Linux source directory. I can only see something that reflects the prior kernel. Below shows what happened. Can anybody lend me a hand? Is my Linux source directory at some other place now that I have the new kernel installed?
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The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]: n
Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n
Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]: n
Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: y

Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]: /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358
Linux source tree /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358 is incomplete or missing!
The kernel header files are present, but not the full source code.
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.

Configuration failed
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That's exactly my error! If someone could please shed some light on this I would be so grateful!

Ok, i got past that step. You do this by typing in 'yum install kernel-sourcecode'

Let this download and try this oen.

I did the kernel sourcecode update, and now when logged in as root, I tried re-running the ./Configure for Prizm, but the following occurred:
*The path used was checked for accuracy*

[root@localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20]# ./Configure

-------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script -------------

The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]: n
Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n
Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]: n
Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: y

Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]: /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
Linux source tree /usr/src/linux-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 is incomplete or missing!
The kernel header files are present, but not the full source code.
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.

Configuration failed

[root@localhost linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre20]#

Did this happen to you?

I also noticed that the source code I installed is at the following:
usr/src/linux-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
In the Control Center, it shows this:
Release: 2.6.7-1.501
Do I have the wrong source code?
-Thanks

Yes i think so; im almost positive your source code needs to match your current kernel.

Did you type 'yum install kernel-sourcecode'?

Yes, I used exactly that syntax. I would have assumed that the installer would know what source code to use. I may need to search for the source code for exactly my kernel. Does your kernel information match up on your system?