Hey guys,
I just got an MN-510 (Microsoft Wireless Network Adapter), and I just recently installed Suse 9.1.

I realize that in order to use wLan (the driver for this adapter), you need to "compile the kernel source tree". SuSe uses kernel version 2.6. Could someone please give me instructions on

a) Where to get the kernel (also remember, I don't have internet on my linux machine - so should I take it from my other computer and burn it to a cd or floppy)

b) How to "compile the source tree" (or something like that). If possible, could you please give me *detailed* instructions rather than say "do this", if its possible - can you give me the line to type in that does it?

c) What do do next, if applicable.

Thanks,
-The Pentium Guy

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v....6.8.1.tar.bz2

will download full sources for kernel 2.6.8.1

you then want to read up a little, but the basics are:
-> put the archive in /usr/src
run:
-> bunzip2 linux-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2
-> tar -xvf linux.2.6.8.1.tar
-> rm linux
-> ln -s linux-2.6.8.1 linux
-> cd /usr/src/linux
-> make xconfig
^^ Take some time here -- this is where you configure the kernel for your system
-> make
-> make modules_install install
^^ the commands for 2.6.x are different from older kernels! (i'm not looking at the docs right now, but i think these are correct.

-- your kernel is now (hopefully) compiled

now you need to install it, i'll assume you have lilo
-> cp /usr/src/linux/arch/<i386?>/boot/bzImage /boot/2.6.8.1
edit /etc/lilo.conf and put in an entry for the new kernel
-> lilo
^^ now lilo is configured, and you can reboot to try out the new kernel

Wow quick reply... thanks

-I'll give this a shot later on tonight, although I'm not sure about Lilo - what do you mean by "put in an entry for the new kernel"? Do i simply type in the Kernel Version number?

thanks in advance,
-Pent

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...icle&artid=213
Hope it helped
Boby

Ahah! awesome .
So Label would be 2.6.8.1

According to the steps above, would this line still be right?
image=/boot/bzImage

I'm not too sure about that o_O...

I'm going to try this right now , thanks for the help

The Pentium Guy

Ah man!! What the heck! After extracting the files, it claims that there's no such thing as:

-> make xconfig

and i'm in the /usr/src/linux/ directory. I even tried make menuconfig.
I went over and looked in that directory.. and there was a bunch of textfiles saying MakeFile and such..

Does the xconfig or menuconfig exist inside a subfolder of the linux directory?
-Thanks a lot

-The Pentium Guy

For a list of folders included:

usr/
sound/
security/
scripts/
net/
mm/
lib/
kernel/
ipc/
init/
inlude/
fs/
drivers/
Documentation/
crypto/
arch/

The files in it:
REPORTING-BUGS
README
Makefile
MAINTAINERS
CREDITS
COPYING

Unfortunately I couldn't find any xconfig or menuconfig on either one of those... Is it possible that the file you linked me to was wrong?

Pent

make xconfig | make menoconfig | make oldconfig | make whatever...

you are not supposed to see a file called xconfig or menuconfig....

there is no file to link; we (or I) told you to link /usr/src/linux to your extracted source of the kernel.

anyways, do the following as root:
**if you don't know what I mean, specify your question, otherwise post the output to this thread...

I understand what you mean man .
Just for some reason it says command or file does not exist..

I'm getting the feeling that SuSe didn't install the Make command !!
I typed in make --version and make -version, and neither work!

-The Pentium Guy

ah -- your problem is with make
run:
which make

not found, huh?
does suse have a package manager? i've never run that build...

I just realized that SuSe doesn't come with it . Not found - you're right.
I'm switching to Debian (woohoo 7 CD's.. it will DEFINATELY come with make eh?).
And I'm buying an ethernet adapter to save the trouble .

-The Pentium Guy

well, since you're switching to debian, i won't bother looking up suse/packages for you...

on debian -- i suggest getting a network install disk as you're just going to have to update all the packages after downloading the CDs anyways...

luck.