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posthuma
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 Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:36 pm Post subject: Installing programs from source |
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Hi, I just finished installing Gentoo from the livecd. I'm trying to install ndiswrapper from source, but I get an error like "Can't find kernel build in /lib/modules/*/build/"
Have I missed something? Also, where am I supposed to get the kernel sources from? They don't seem to be on the LiveCD.
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nanoczar
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As root, go to the /usr/src directory and see if there is a folder entitled 'linux'. If there is, then see where it is pointing. If you do a ls -la from the command line you should see something like this... | Code: | quantum src # ls -la
total 88
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Sep 12 16:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 13 20:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 21 2005 .keep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 19 14:58 linux -> linux-2.6.17-gentoo/
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where your linux is pointing to your kernel directory. If this is not the case, then you need to make a soft link to it by typing | Code: | | ln -s linux-2.6.17-gentoo linux |
where linux-2.6.17-gentoo is your specific kernel.
You might also try, if you have the link, going into that directory (/usr/src/linux) and recompiling the kernel and modules. | Code: | | make && make modules_install && make install |
Maybe you didn't get the modules installed properly during the installation.
Post your success...or lack there of...
-nanoczar
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