On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:49:15 +0100, 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 -

Ha! "weenified", that's pretty funny.

> 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 :-)

Really? I remember in SunOS days (prior to and up to Solaris 1.1.1) I used
to build a bunch of freeware from tarballs. That usually worked quite well
actually. I suspect most freeware was being developed on SunOS.

These days I usually find freeware for Solaris (2.x+) on:
www.sunfreeware.com
www.blastwave.org

> 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?

Yeah, I find most (but not all) application packages can be "ported" to
another distro quite easily. Kernel patches and/or drivers can be messy.
They should be more independent of distro, but they're still messy.

BTW, I have this header on SuSE 8.2:

rpm -qal | grep modversions.h
/usr/src/linux-2.4.20.SuSE/include/linux/modversions.h

p.s. I'm trying to work up the courage to implement wireless LAN 802.11g
on Linux. I guess I'm hoping someone else will have blazed a trail.

--
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.