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Old 01-Feb-2009, 15:21
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Default compat-wireless driver update (?)

Hi all.
I am a noob running openSuse 11.1 Gnome on a Samsung NC10 netbook. Almost everything (including wifi) worked out of the box, but a very few days ago I noticed something strange.
With two different clients I had a speed < 0.1 K/s while trying to download a .torrent file, so I switched to XP and the same .torrent got about 50 K/s speed!!
On another forum (dedicated to my netbook) I found the suggestion to download the experimental drivers from here and 'make' them, but this is what I got:

Code:
linux-vspk:/home/massimo/Documents/news!/compat-wireless-2009-01-30 # sudo make install

Your old wireless subsystem modules were left intact:

/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/adm8211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/ath5k.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/ath9k.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/staging/at76_usb/at76_usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_cs.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2400pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rndis_wlan.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8180.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.ko

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-default/build M=/home/massimo/Documents/news!/compat-wireless-2009-01-30 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27.7-9-obj/i386/default'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
What did I do wrong?? Any suggestions on how to make this work correctly?

Thanks in advance!
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