From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Max Siegel <max8455@hotmail.com>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Broadcom card wont pickup access point signal
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:30:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <489CE53B.6050204@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY131-W6F7D0B2EA6D7DC6EB07B4B7770@phx.gbl>
Max Siegel wrote:
> Thank you for your quick answer. I will try and update the kernel, but
> I don't know how. If you can link me a guide that would be of great
> help, if not I will be searching google.
The first step is to download the kernel source from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.26.2.tar.bz2.
Open a terminal and unpack it with a 'tar jxvf linux-2.6.26.2.tar.bz2'
command. The download is 47 MB.
The next step is to make sure that you have the c compiler and make
routine installed. You can do this by entering the commands 'gcc' and
'make'. If either of them returns a "command not found" message, then
you need to get them for your distribution.
At this point do a 'cd linux-2.6.26.2' command and look for the
configuration used by your distro. I use openSUSE which puts the
configuration at /proc/config.gz. Other distros place it in /boot. As
I don't know where yours is, I cannot help you more. From here you
should look at Google to find how to build a kernel for your distro.
Larry
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