[PlanetCCRMA] Installing wireless card

[Juan Reyes]

Hi Joseph,

In my case rebuilding the Kernel was the only option because I was getting
unresolved symbols with the planetCCRMA kernel-sources rpm. In any case
once you rebuild the kernel you get your own kernel sources rpm. I had to
use the rpmbuild -ba plus the --target i686 option and then install the
i686 kernel-up option. Also I needed to recompile the alsa drivers for the
new kernel. After all these I was able to successfully compile the wlan
prism 2.5 drivers.

I think there was a posting on the planetCCRMA list last Thursday or
Friday with instructions on building the kernel. But anyhow the main
problem you have is getting hard-drive space a new kernel might be at
least 30 more megs if I am not mistaken. Make sure your new partition is 
automatically mounted on /etc/fstab with the right permissions.

  --* Juan


On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Joseph Zitt wrote:

> I've gotten a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card for my laptop, and
> downloaded the appropriate drivers from Netgear's site.
> 
> Will I have to rebuild my kernel in order to use it?
> 
> If so: I've downloaded the kernel source RPM from Planet CCRMA, but
> don't have room to put what it tries to put into /usr/src into my root
> partition. I've tried to create a directory for it on another partition
> and to symlink it to /usr/src, but rpm complained:
> 
> Executing RPM (-ivh)...
> Preparing...                ###########################################
> [100%]
>    1:kernel-source          error: unpacking of archive failed on file
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-1.ll/include/asm;3e1fe8da: cpio: symlink failed -
> Operation not permitted
> E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (1)
> 
> Is there a way to do this? I've tried removing what I could from my root
> partition without making much of a dent in it.
> 
>