I am tring to setup a wireless PCI card in my linux box. I have found the WLAN driver that supports my D-link 520 card at
http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
I am totally new at compiling sorce and I don't know what I am doing. I downloaded the newest one (0.1.16-pre9) and followed
the directions of

make config
make all
make install
All three seem to work OK. I don't see any error messages or anything like that. However I still don't have a wlan0 device. I also noticed that there is no /etc/wlan directory. I did run the
RPM's for this driver and it worked. I saw the card and everything, except it was older and I wanted to use the lastest one. I also saw something about kernel source. I went to the /usr/src/kernel-2.4 and ran make config (sure didn't know what was going on) and thats all I did. I did try to run the makes for the wlan again after this with same results.

Basically I need to complile the source for wlan for a PCI card. My kernel is the one that shipped with RH 8.0 My processor is a PII
and the /boot/kernel.h shows i686. I was hoping someone could give me some pointers on what I need to do after the Make install
I also tried to run modprobe prism2_pci after the make command but get a 'can't locate module prism2_pci'

Any help would be appricated. Thanks again.

I thought I would add some more info...
I downloaded the following
ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wan-ng/
the file was linux-wan-ng-0.1.16-pre9.tar.gz

I expanded the files.
I run make config
answer questions accordingly
prism2.x pcmcia driver NO
Prism2 PLX9052 Based PCI driver. NO
Prism2.5 Native PCI Driver YES
Prism2.5 USB Driver NO
Source Directory (changed to /usr/src/linux-2.4)
(NOTE: I copied the i686 file from the Sources folder to the linux-2.4 directory and renamed that file to .config like it asked)
Alternate Target Install Root Directory on Host (not sure what that is but I selected "/sbin/wland" and created that directory.
Module install directory /lib/modules/2.4.18-14 (this give a text message stating that it looks like you have a system V init file setup.)
Prefix for build host compiler NO
Build for Debugging NO
Configuration Successful.

Next I run make all
The first time I ran this it displayed quite a bit of information. Now however when I run it at the bottom I am getting make errors.
a copy of the info currently seen is this.


[root@LCARS linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9]# make config

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

The default responses are correct for most users.

Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [y]: y

Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: n

Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux-2.4]:

The kernel source tree is version 2.4.18-14.
The current kernel build date is Wed Sep 4 13:35:50 2002.

Alternate target install root directory on host [/sbin/wland]:
Module install directory [/lib/modules/2.4.18-14]:

It looks like you have a System V init file setup.


Prefix for build host compiler? (rarely needed) [n]: n

Build for debugging (see doc/config.debug) (y/n) [n]: n


Configuration successful.

[root@LCARS linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9]# make all
set -e; for d in src doc man etc; do make -C $d ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jamie/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9/src'
set -e; for d in mkmeta p80211 prism2 shared wlanctl wland nwepgen wlancfg; do make -C $d ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jamie/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9/src/mkmeta'
ngcc -E -M -I../include -I/usr/src/linux-2.4/include -D__LINUX_WLAN__ ../shared/p80211types.c ../shared/p80211metamsg.c ../shared/p80211metamib.c ../shared/p80211meta.c mkmetadef.c ../shared/p80211types.c ../shared/p80211metamsg.c ../shared/p80211metamib.c ../shared/p80211meta.c mkmetastruct.c > .depend
/bin/sh: line 1: ngcc: command not found
make[2]: *** [.depend] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jamie/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9/src/mkmeta'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jamie/linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
[root@LCARS linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre9]#

I guess I will stop at this point , but before I starting messing with all my config files and such I never got these errors. The main thing I can think that I did was run Make Config in the kernel directory which resulted in about 200 questions being asked. Most of which I just pressed enter.

Thanks,

Jamie

I may have got it fixed. I ran the install again totally from scratch from another directory on the root. I did the same steps as before but this time when I typed the command to start the prism driver it worked!!