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

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Aug 14 21:44:40 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 15:37 -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 14:47 -0400, Alex Janssen wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>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
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Which package should I dl for a 2.1GHZ Celeron?
> >>  
> >>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.i586.rpm
> >>or 
> >>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.i686.rpm
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >----
> >why download?
> >
> >yum install kernel kernel-devel
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >  
> >
> I ended up dl'ing 
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/i386/kernel-devel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.i686.rpm
> and madwifi then built and installed Ok.
> 
> How would someone know they needed this new package when they had not 
> needed it before?
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read the release notes - see the part about adding kernel modules

Craig




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