Hello everyone before i let forth my problems i just want to say that i am a complete newbie to linux and so please bare with me. Any help would be very much appreciated.
Im sure my problem has been encountered by many others before, and trust me when i say i've looked through plenty of howto's as well as forum postings and as a last resort i've come here.
1st of all, I am running a fresh installation of Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (i say 'fresh' because i decided to start all over as opposed to the previous install in which i may have made some changes which I'm not quite sure how to undo)
With a fresh install, every single device on my computer works fine except my wireless network card, a linksys Wireless-G PCI card (wmp54g .v2). From what i understand, what i need to do is install and run ndiswrapper, and for this card (especially .v2 - which is slightly bigger than .v4) i know that ndiswrapper-0.7 works well with it.
So i downloaded ndiswrapper-0.7.tar.gz
did,
tar zxvf ndiswrapper-0.7.tar.gz
then cd ndiswrapper-0.7
this is where the problem starts, when i try './configure' i keep on getting this:
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
i try to ignore that and do: 'make distclean' and get:
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
before i carried out all this: i have installed the build-essential package, gcc,g++, the linux-headers for my kernal version and even the linux-source using Adept. I read somewhere that i have to make a link between the linux source and the modules library using an alteration of:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-<kernel-version> /lib/modules/VERSION/build
however, even after installing the linux-source using adept, what i get in my /usr/src folder is the gzip'd file 'linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2' and this makes me wonder how do i install the linux-source from source when I cant even run the ./configure command let alone make or make install?
So to sum it all up:
1. why can't i get ./configure to work
2. do i really need to install the linux-source to be able to compile a package from source and if so how do i compile the linux-source source in the first place?
3. please help me.... any1...
Im sure my problem has been encountered by many others before, and trust me when i say i've looked through plenty of howto's as well as forum postings and as a last resort i've come here.
1st of all, I am running a fresh installation of Kubuntu 6.06 LTS (i say 'fresh' because i decided to start all over as opposed to the previous install in which i may have made some changes which I'm not quite sure how to undo)
With a fresh install, every single device on my computer works fine except my wireless network card, a linksys Wireless-G PCI card (wmp54g .v2). From what i understand, what i need to do is install and run ndiswrapper, and for this card (especially .v2 - which is slightly bigger than .v4) i know that ndiswrapper-0.7 works well with it.
So i downloaded ndiswrapper-0.7.tar.gz
did,
tar zxvf ndiswrapper-0.7.tar.gz
then cd ndiswrapper-0.7
this is where the problem starts, when i try './configure' i keep on getting this:
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
i try to ignore that and do: 'make distclean' and get:
make: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
before i carried out all this: i have installed the build-essential package, gcc,g++, the linux-headers for my kernal version and even the linux-source using Adept. I read somewhere that i have to make a link between the linux source and the modules library using an alteration of:
ln -s /usr/src/linux-<kernel-version> /lib/modules/VERSION/build
however, even after installing the linux-source using adept, what i get in my /usr/src folder is the gzip'd file 'linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2' and this makes me wonder how do i install the linux-source from source when I cant even run the ./configure command let alone make or make install?
So to sum it all up:
1. why can't i get ./configure to work
2. do i really need to install the linux-source to be able to compile a package from source and if so how do i compile the linux-source source in the first place?
3. please help me.... any1...
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