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I've got Ubuntu installed on my laptop (Older Dell Satellite) and it works fine.
Now I need to make and intall some software including the latest versions of wlan-ng and some others. My old distro (Fedora) had all the needed components pre-installed to do this but it looks like (for good reason - one CD) the Ubuntu system does not. Since I'm still a little new at the Linux game could someone let me know which extra components I need to install to be able to compile and make files? I'm running the latest release of "hoary". Thanks in advance for the help.
I've got Ubuntu installed on my laptop (Older Dell Satellite) and it works fine.
Now I need to make and intall some software including the latest versions of wlan-ng and some others. My old distro (Fedora) had all the needed components pre-installed to do this but it looks like (for good reason - one CD) the Ubuntu system does not. Since I'm still a little new at the Linux game could someone let me know which extra components I need to install to be able to compile and make files? I'm running the latest release of "hoary". Thanks in advance for the help.
--- vino
I had a dickens of a time making ubuntu play nice with the things that other distro's worked with out of the box. In my case I got rpm2targz and changed the rpm's that came from other distro's into tar.gz files and installed them like that. After awhile I just installed ubuntu onto my toy system that didn't require installation of anything the o/s didn't support because ubuntu is one pain in the neck having no libraries and compilers. I suspect 5.10 will be better and have my fangers crossed!
EDIT: I also got the source files from ftp.gtk.org and ftp.gnome.org and so on....
Unfortunately after I sucessfully ran the apt-get command and the install went fine with no errors I still get the following when I try to make the latest linux-wlan package:
-------------- 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]: y
Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: y
Linux source directory [/lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686/build]:
Linux source tree /lib/modules/2.6.10-5-686/build is incomplete or missing!
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.
Configuration failed
make: *** [config] Error 1
I also tried installing the 2.6.10 kernel sources with synaptic (as noted in the error message) but maybe I got the wrong ones or the install script is looking in the wrong place. Any ideas?
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