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Old 05-14-2006, 12:48 PM   #1
The_Sleeping_Dragon
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Installing Drivers for my wireless card


I am trying to install the drivers from the offical website for my wireless card onto my Fedora 5 distro. Followed the readme exactly to no luck. Heres the log

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[root@localhost ~]# cd /root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2
[root@localhost rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2]# dos2unix *
dos2unix: converting file ifcfg-wlan0 to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file makedrv to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file r818x.tar.gz to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file readme to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file stack.tar.gz to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file wlan0dhcp to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file wlan0down to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file wlan0up to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file wpa1.conf to UNIX format ...
dos2unix: converting file wpa_supplicant-0.3.8.tar.gz to UNIX format ...
[root@localhost rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2]# chmod 777
chmod: missing operand after `777'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.
[root@localhost rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2]# chmod 777 *
[root@localhost rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2]# ./makedrv
ieee80211/
ieee80211/ieee80211_tx.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_wx.c
ieee80211/Makefile
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.h
ieee80211/ieee80211_rx.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
ieee80211/ieee80211.h
ieee80211/ieee80211_softmac_wx.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_ccmp.c
ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
ieee80211/LICENSE
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error

gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
rtl818x-0.1/
rtl818x-0.1/Makefile
rtl818x-0.1/AUTHORS
rtl818x-0.1/CHANGES
rtl818x-0.1/COPYING
rtl818x-0.1/INSTALL
rtl818x-0.1/LICENSE
rtl818x-0.1/ieee80211.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8255.c
rtl818x-0.1/README
rtl818x-0.1/README.adhoc
rtl818x-0.1/ieee80211_crypt.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_wx.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_93cx6.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_93cx6.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_core.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_gct.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_gct.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_hw.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_max2820.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_max2820.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_pm.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_pm.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_sa2400.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_sa2400.h
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_wx.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8225.c
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8225.c.old
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8255.h
rtl818x-0.1/README.master
rtl818x-0.1/r8180_rtl8225.h
rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
rm -rf /root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2/ieee80211/tmp
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build SUBDIRS=/root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2/ieee802 11 MODVERDIR=/root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2/ieee8 0211 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
rm -f *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
rm -rf /root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2/rtl818x-0.1/tmp
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build SUBDIRS=/root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2/rtl818x -0.1 MODVERDIR=/root/Desktop/rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2/rtl81 8x-0.1 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.15-1.2054_FC5/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[root@localhost rtl8185_linux_11102005_fedora2]#
any ideas how to fix this?

Last edited by The_Sleeping_Dragon; 05-14-2006 at 12:50 PM.
 
Old 05-15-2006, 10:20 AM   #2
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Install the kernel-source and kernel-devel packages for the kernel you're running.
 
  


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