Make commmand error

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Hello,

I am not sure if this is the right area to ask this question, so if it is not I am sorry. First off I am very new to Linux, and thought I would start out with openSuse.

To make a long story short, I am setting up Suse on my macbook pro 5,3. I have it set as a dual boot and everything has gone fine. I am trying to get my wifi card to work, so I am following this guide:
Opensuse 11.2 M8 on Macbook Pro 5,3 - openSUSE Forums

Which has led me to my first task and link:
http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt

This is to get the driver setup on my system. However when I get to the step to use Make, I get the following error:

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-01-desktop/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

Now when i look in that directory listed above, I see a link to s file called build. When I hover over it with my cursor the following is displayed:

build (unknown, Link to /usr/src/linux-2.6.31.5-0.1-obj/x86_64/desktop)

So at this point I am not sure what is wrong, or what is stopping me from using the make command.

Thanks for any help or information you can supply

BH

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Have you installed the kernel headers first?

zypper install linux-kernel-headers
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Yes I already checked this, ‘linux-kernel-headers’ is already installed.

I also noticed another line which is above the error, which i didnt post above:
when I run make I get the following output

**KBUILD_NOPENDANTIC=1 make -C /lib/modules/uname -r /build M=pwd
** (first line, i forgot to include in above post)
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-01-desktop/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thank you very much for the speedy reply, any other thoughts as to why make is not working?

Thanks

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Post the output of the following:

uname -r
ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-01-desktop
ls -l /usr/src/linux
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uname -r

2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop

ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-01-desktop

ls: cannot access /libmodules/2.6.31.5-01-desktop: No such file or directory

ls -l /usr/src/linux

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2010-01-08 13:32 /usr/src/linux -> linux-2.6.31.4-1

Those are the outputs. Can u explain what you are looking for?

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I think you didn’t correctly type the 2nd command.

ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.31.5-01-desktop

I think you have some version mismatch.

Instead of the 3rd command, do the following:

ls -l /usr/src
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ls -l /usr/src
gave the following

linux-1tn6:/home/axiom # ls -l /usr/src
total 16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2010-01-08 13:32 linux -> linux-2.6.31.4-1
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2010-01-08 13:32 linux-2.6.31.4-1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-21 23:57 linux-2.6.31.4-1-obj
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-10-21 23:57 linux-obj
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2009-11-02 18:46 packages

I just did this install like 2hrs ago? Did maybe mess something up durring the instal? Would it be easier for me to reinstall and start again?

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You can see that your kernel version is
2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop
(You may have got this through an update after the install)

However, you have installed kernel source and its version is
2.6.31.4-1

Update your system and try so that both the versions will be matching.

zypper up
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Hmm i did this and it update alot of stuff, but I still get that same error when trying to use make on that makefile. I know the command make itself works as I tried it on another file.

I noticed you are running Suse on a macbook pro as well, did you have a hard time to get the wireless running? Thats really all my goal is. If I can get the wireless running, I can be able to read material and learn more about Linux.

Do you have any suggestions? I am running macbook pro 5,3.

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Yes, I did compile the broadcom-wl package for this.

(Later) I found that compiled versions are available at the repositories: (I did not test them).

zypper install broadcom-wl
zypper install broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop