Madwifi problem on Acer 5315

**hzxu** · 20-Jul-2008, 17:52

My Acer Aspire 5315 has Athero wireless, I followed the instruction here:

UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo - madwifi.org - Trac

But when I do "make", I got:

Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-pae/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.

Is it because I do not have kernel source files installed or other reasons?

Thanks!

**wnj92996** · 20-Jul-2008, 19:17

Should be because of the sources. Install them and you should be fine.

**swerdna** · 21-Jul-2008, 01:41

Originally Posted by hzxu

My Acer Aspire 5315 has Athero wireless, I followed the instruction here:

UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo - madwifi.org - Trac

But when I do "make", I got:

Makefile.inc:91: *** KERNELCONF: /lib/modules/2.6.25.9-0.2-pae/build/.config does not exist.. Stop.

Is it because I do not have kernel source files installed or other reasons?

Thanks!

Did you know there are madwifi rpms that get you around all the make / make install stuff.

**Imaginos** · 24-Jul-2008, 03:12

Originally Posted by swerdna

Did you know there are madwifi rpms that get you around all the make / make install stuff.

He's right. There are SuSE rpm files in the madwifi repository to make install easy.

I have an acer too, and it has that frustrating AR5007 wireless in it. Instead of building my own patched driver, I ended up using Schmolle's rpms that he put into a community repo after he patched and built them using the madwifi instructions.