Wlan

[munguanaweza]

HI,
I am writing to get the help of the gurus here with a wlan problem.  First, let me lay a little background.

I have been unable to get my cooling fan to work with the 2.6.xx kernels supplied by PCLinuxOS.  So I downloaded a stable 3.0.xx kernel source tarball from kernel.org and compiled it to install on PCLinuxOS.  Everything seems to work fine, except for the wlan, which ought to work out of the box with the new kernel. 

I tried to install the driver for the wlan, a rtl8192se realtek card, but it won't build properly with the compiled 3.0 kernel. 

Any  ideas of how to procede?

[muungwana]

what do these commands give you?

lsusb

lspci

make sure your wireless card is plugged in before you run those commands if it is usb based

"it won't build properly" is not very descriptive. What actually happen when things fail? can you give outputs when things fail? The more descriptive you are, the easier and faster support is usually provided

[munguanaweza]

Hi,
I thought that it might be best to repeat the process of building the kernel, since the wlan driver is supposed to be in the newer kernel.  I downloaded the latest 3.2rc2 tarball and tried to begin to install it.  However, I am hitting a snag.  Here is the bash readout.

make
scripts/kconfig/conf --silentoldconfig Kconfig

*** Error during update of the configuration.

make[2]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 1
make[1]: *** [silentoldconfig] Error 2
make: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'.  Stop.

I am new at building kernels so I don't recognize the errors.  I do have automake and autoconf installed.

[yodelu]

i'm not an expert with this but it seems that you have to copy the  config file from the old(current) kernel to the new one

cp -vi /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
Show the new config keys and set values (optional):
make oldconfig
Main config (if I need to change things, optional again):
make menuconfig

source: google search
hope it helps..