[ILUG] Intel wireless Cards - Quick start / install for Fedora Core 2

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, AJ McKee wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A lot of you may have Dell Inspiron 8600(c) laptops... sorry 
> notebooks so here is an idiots guide to getting the intel drivers 
> working under Fedora C2
>
> Instructions;
>
> Download the following kernel and kernel source;
>
> kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.i686.rpm
> kernel-sourcecode-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.noarch.rpm

You shouldnt, in theory, need the kernel-sourcecode rpm.

> The don't forget to make a symbolic link from
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 to /usr/src/linux

Well, for 2.6, external modules should be looking to:

   /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

Indeed, you should, in theory, be able to symlink /usr/src/linux to 
the above directory, for modules which look to /usr/src/linux, and 
have it work.

In theory, cause last time i tried this, to build hostap drivers, 
there were a few problems with the kernel build system expecting to 
be able to write to the build dir. however that was a while ago, 
hopefully it's fixed. However, you still shouldnt need the 
kernel-sourcecode rpm though, just make /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build 
world writeable while you build your rpm (chmod -R a+r ..) (cause 
building software as root is *bad*, very bad.).

> Also you will need to use the nvidia-installer to update your 
> nvidia drivers. Just do a --force-update and it will build one for 
> your new kernel.
>
> Cheers
> AJ

regards,
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