Re: Broadcom card wont pickup access point signal

Re: Broadcom card wont pickup access point signal

[Larry Finger]

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