[NTLUG:Discuss] RTL8180 Wireless Assistance needed.

Stephen Davidson gorky at freenet.carleton.ca
Thu Jan 15 14:18:57 CST 2004


Hi Terry.

terry wrote:
> Stephen Davidson wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andrew.
>>
>> This time its a PCI card, in Linux, and right now the Linux drivers
>> are NOT compiling.  Something about a bad "include" path, and I am
>> not enough up on C & Linux to be able to handle this efficiently
>> myself.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Steve
> 
> 
> Aaahhhaaa...
> You only need to tell it the path to your kernel sources.  There should 
Tried that.

> be something in the README or INSTALL file that tells about this issue, 
Misread or misconfigured something, as my fix did NOT fix it.  'Tis why
I am asking for help. Sounds like something you guys should find easy to
fix once you get your hands on the system?

> but all it amounts to is either correcting the Makefile's path to the 
> kernel sources, (for YOUR system), or including [appending to the 'make' 
> command] a comment that points to the kernel sources, AND, it needs to 
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