madwifi - Makefile.inc:122: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1372_FC3/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Sun Aug 14 18:25:56 UTC 2005


Daniel Normolle wrote:

> Alex Janssen wrote:
>
>> Every time I've updated the kernel for Fedora Core 3,  I've had to 
>> rebuild madwifi to get wireless working again.  That's not the 
>> problem.  This time when I tried to rebuild, I got the subject error 
>> message when I ran make.  Anyone else tried this?  Anyone know how to 
>> fix it.  I obviously had all required packages installed in the past 
>> and the update process updated those packages.  This time I told it 
>> to update all packages and it finished successfully.  I couldn't find 
>> anything suitable in the archives for this list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>
> You need kernel-devel installed with FC3 2.6.12-1.1372 to
> compile madwifi.  This was not true in previous kernels.
>
> dpn
>
Thanks for the pointer.  How's a body to know these things?  I guess an 
un-aware user like myself should use a different distro.  Maybe one that 
is not updated so much. What do you think?

Alex

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