It was discussed in another thread, that it is normal for
the ‘linux-kernel-headers’ to NOT agree in version#.
(It doesn’t on my system, and I can compile drivers ok)
rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-source-2.6.25.9-0.2
kernel-default-2.6.25.9-0.2
kernel-syms-2.6.25.9-0.2
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.25-8.1
Install ‘kernel-syms’, and then try your ‘configure’ again.
hstuifbergen@linux-6a9e:~/Documents/RutilTv0.16> ./configure.sh
Kernel sources cannot be found.
Kernel headers found. They do not match your running kernel.
hstuifbergen@linux-6a9e:~/Documents/RutilTv0.16> rpm -qa |grep kernel
linux-kernel-headers-2.6.25-8.1
kernel-source-2.6.25.9-0.2
kernel-default-2.6.25.9-0.2
kernel-syms-2.6.25.9-0.2
Do you even need to build a driver for the RT2500 these days? I thought the driver module for that chipset was merged into the mainline kernel already?
I had to do a fair bit of this crap a short while ago for my laptop. I bought a wireless card each for my laptop and my desktop PC. They were both RT2561/RT61. The serialmonkey project developed the drivers for the RT2561/RT61 and RT2500 sets. The RT2561/RT61 driver was merged into the mainline kernel as of 2.6.24, but I still couldn’t use that kernel because I couldn’t install openSuse 10.3 on my PC and my laptop died shortly after the release of 10.3
I assumed that since the RT2561/RT61 module is in that the RT2500 module must also be in. In fact, I thought the one driver module covered the lot. Are you sure it’s not just the firmware you need to install to get things working? For example, my RT2561/RT61 card had it’s driver module installed by the openSuse installer, but it still wouldn’t work until I plugged in a wired connection so I could download and install the firmware from the non-oss repository.
I don’t know if this info will be of much use to you, but you did say you were pretty clueless and I know exactly what it feels like to be clueless about doing just what you’re trying to do. So I thought I should at least offer what little knowledge I have. Just in case it might help.
stuifbergen schrieb:
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> hstuifbergen@linux-6a9e:~/Documents/RutilTv0.16> rpm -qa |grep kernel
> linux-kernel-headers-2.6.25-8.1
> kernel-source-2.6.25.9-0.2
> kernel-default-2.6.25.9-0.2
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> I was looking for kernel-headers, but now I see it’s named
> linux-kernel-headers
Nope, that’s something different. linux-kernel-headers is for compiling
applications, not kernel modules.
> However, while I try to update this using Yast, I can only get version
> 2.6.25-8.1.
That’s correct. The application programming interface (API) of the
kernel doesn’t change between maintenance versions, so
linux-kernel-headers 2.6.25 is actually correct for kernel 2.6.25.x.
> Somewhere else on the forum I read that the following could be a
> solution:
>
>
> Code:
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> rpm -e --nodeps linux-kernel-headers-2.6.25-8.1
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> Is this also working in my situation?
Possibly, if RutilT is so badly written that it doesn’t know about what
I wrote above, or looks in the wrong place for the actual kernel headers.
Another possibility would be to tell the configure script of RutilT
exactly where to look for the kernel headers. Try “./configure --help”
to see a list of options, and if you find something like
“–with-kernel-headers=<directory>”, try using that, like so_
Use the option name you found in the “./configure --help” output.
In case it complains about the directory not containing any kernel
sources/headers, try omitting the final “/include”.
