[NBLUG/talk] my laptop & wireless ethernet

Micxz (lovedialup.com) an_email at micxz.com
Fri Jun 6 22:28:01 PDT 2003


> First, when using your distro's kernel, your distro will often provide
> (but not install by default) the kernel src package for the same version
> kernel you are running. You may need to install this.
> 
> Next, "configure" scripts often accept args. Try:
> # cd to/dir/with/src/you/want/to/compile/mentioned/above/
> # ./configure --help |more
> 
> look through the options. There may be an option like --kernel-src=PATH
> where you can do this:
> # ./configure --kernel-src=/usr/src/path/to/your/kernel/src
> It may not be called --kernel-src, just look through the various options
> and see if there is something like that.


The configure script is actually interactive, it asks were the source is
and the default (/usr/src/linux) does not work.

I don't know were to look.

ARGH;



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