Kernel Sources

Stjepan Gros sgros at zemris.fer.hr
Tue Jan 30 07:09:46 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:13 -0700, Ken Ramey wrote:
> I have a NetGear WiFi card that I  have been using on a laptop by
> "LinuxCertified" for a few years now.  Unfortunately, the card uses the
> "Atheros" chip set and requires a kernel driver to be built in order to
> work.  Lately, I have been unable to find the kernel sources for my
> Fedora system in order to update the driver .  Can anyone suggest a
> source for the sources?  Ideally, a "yum" repository so that the kernel
> sources will track my kernel upgrades.  I am currently at 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6

Have you installed kernel-devel package? It should be enough to compile
modules.

> Failing that, does anyone know of a WiFi card that works "out of the
> box" with Fedora Core 6?

Atheros chipset should work "out of the box", or at least it was so for
me. Try livna repository. They have prebuild modules.

Stjepan





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