From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: robert george <robezy.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compiling bcm4xx module
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:25:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061026122536.GC12420@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d87a57d0610260408j641545c7oe9f9d74bdb19a321@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:38:29PM +0530, robert george wrote:
> i am having 2.6.16-13 kernel .This kernel lack support for broadcom
> wireless card.But the latest kernel is having support for this card.
>
> I download the the kernel ,but i would like to compile this particular
>
> driver only , not the entire kernel.
> Is it possible???
I don't think so. Bcm43xx needs the ieee80211 subsystem, which also
changed a lot between 2.6.16 and 2.6.18.
> I tried to execute the following command
> make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.16-13 SUBDIRS=$PWD modules
>
> but got following error message ..
>
> ' No reason to target modules'
>
> How can i compile the driver separately???
Not against that particular kernel.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-26 12:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-26 11:08 compiling bcm4xx module robert george
2006-10-26 12:25 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2006-10-28 16:17 ` Michael Buesch
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