Re: wireless and kernel woes
dbarker@turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca said:
>
> The situation: bought an Averatec notebook couple of weeks ago (AMD
> Athlon-M, 256K, builtint 10/100 and wireless, CDRW-DVD combo, etc)
Which wireless card is this? `lspci` will probably help...
> install ndis-wrappers package. Doesn't load as built against
> wrong kernel (I installed the kernel-2.6.6-1-k7 package, so of
> course...)
I use the upstream source from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ and
rebuild it every time I have a new kernel (it only takes a few seconds to
build on my system).
> Bite the bullet and decide to rebuild kernel. Two problems:
> firstly the attempt to make_kpkg modules_image fails:
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6/include/linux/modversion.h does not
> exist!
I'd suggest sticking to the debian kernels and just build the ndiswrapper.
This way you can still take advantage of security updates, etc. But if you
are determined to go with a custom kernel... The error basically means
that you have the kernel source, but it hasn't been configured yet. You
need to run `make config`, `make menuconfig`, `make oldconfig`, or `make
xconfig` (i.e. `cd <kernel source> ; cp /boot/config-<current running
kernel's config> . ; make oldconfig`) and THEN run `make-kpkg ...`
HTH,
Ron
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