John Stumbles wrote:

> "Eric Moors" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message
> news:cdig1f$m23$1@voyager.news.surf.net...
>> > In article <2m2njmFihn96U1@uni-berlin.de>,
>> > "John Stumbles" <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
>> >> I'm trying to get an 802.11g PCMCIA adaptor (Dabsvalue aka Edimax 7108
>> >> aka Ralink Tech RT2500)
>> >>to work under mdk 10.0. The driver (from Ralink's web
>> >> site) expects uname -r = 2.6.3-4mdk whereas my system has 2.6.3-7mdk.
>> >> What difference does the -x number (-4 v. -7) indicate?
>>
>> Get the source code and compile it yourself.
>>
>> http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm
>
> D'oh! Didn't think of that (getting weenified by this packages business -
> when I used Solaris I used to have to compile everything myself, and often
> to faff around with the order of compilers in $PATH to get it to do the
> right thing :-)
>
> Unfortunately 'make all' throws up errors, starting with
> '/usr/src/linux-2.6.3-7mdk/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file ...'
> The README says the source has been verified for 'Linux versions after
> RedHat Linux 7.1' so maybe modversions.h is a RH thing?


include/linux/modversions.h is in 2.4 kernels source.
include/config/modversions.h is in 2.6 kernels source.

To build a 2.6 kernel, the simple procedure is:

make xconfig
make && make modules_install && make install

That's it

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