From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net ([204.127.131.116]:59129 "EHLO mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751245AbYHIAa5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 20:30:57 -0400 Message-ID: <489CE53B.6050204@lwfinger.net> (sfid-20080809_023101_078252_8E51DEED) Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:30:51 -0500 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Max Siegel CC: wireless Subject: Re: Broadcom card wont pickup access point signal References: <489CDD4B.1050400@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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