[NBLUG/talk] my laptop & wireless ethernet

[ME]

Micxz (lovedialup.com) said:
>> My first question: Has anyone had luck with wireless PCMCIA cards and
>> linux?  Secondly, what is so complicated about writing drivers for these
>> cards? I really am curious if it's really a difficult thing to do or
>> just
>> low priority.
>
> Here's what I've been reading:
>
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html#latest
> http://sdb.suselinux.hu/en/sdb/html/wavelan.html
>
> the second you may not need, I'm on SuSE 8.1.
>
> I have been unsuccessful in configuring my lynksys WPC11 ver 3. on my
> laptop so far. But I can't configure the driver because the configure
> script can't find my linux kernel src!

First, when using your distro's kernel, your distro will often provide
(but not install by default) the kernel src package for the same version
kernel you are running. You may need to install this.

Next, "configure" scripts often accept args. Try:
# cd to/dir/with/src/you/want/to/compile/mentioned/above/
# ./configure --help |more

look through the options. There may be an option like --kernel-src=PATH
where you can do this:
# ./configure --kernel-src=/usr/src/path/to/your/kernel/src
It may not be called --kernel-src, just look through the various options
and see if there is something like that.

-ME