Install Hostap in Fedora Core 2

[Amal Al Hajeri]

Hi,
I followed your recommendations but no luck yet :( i still get the same
error. please find my comments In-line
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 08:34, AP-Research wrote:
> <quote who="Amal Al Hajeri">
> > Hi  All,
> >
> > Am trying to configure the intel WLAN 2100 adapter in my Dell Latitude
> > D600 Laptop with Fedora Core 2 installation , for that, one of the
> > requirements is to install hostap. I managed to execute the 'make'
> > command sucessfuly after i copied the kernel .config file as follows:
> >
> > cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/
> > cp configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config .config
> 
> I'm not sure you will achieve success using the kernel-2.6.5-i686.config
> unless you compile it and boot it (Someone correct me here if I'm wrong, I
> haven't verified it yet).  You should use the .config which was used to
> compile the kernel you are CURRENTLY running.  I deduce from the following
> lines that you should be using /boot/config-2.6.5-1.358.
I verified which kernel am running now and the output was i686

# rpm -q --qf '%{ARCH}\n' kernel
i686

actually if you do a "diff" on the two files,
/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config  and the one
under /boot/ you will find that they are the same file. 

> 
> > I then changed the kernel path in the Makefile to be:
> >
> > KERNEL_PATH=/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build/
> 
> ...will this work??? I'm not a kernel hacker, but according to all the
> docs KERNEL_PATH should point to /usr/src/linux-<version>.  If this will
> work then it might be a shortcut to avoid recompiling the kernel source
> tree in preparation for hostap make.  I'm interested in results of this...
> 
> I did this change too and ran 'make' successfully 

> > Execution of 'make' command:
> >
> > hostap-driver-0.1.3]# make
> > make -C /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build/
> <snip>
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358'
> 
> ... illustrates my earlier comment about KERNEL_PATH
> 
> 
> > When i do 'make install' i get the following error:
> > Module installation directory not valid:
> > '/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358custom'
> > Most probable cause for this is modified kernel headers.
> 
> Edit /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/Makefile and remove "custom" from
> EXTRAVERSION = -1.358custom
> Did this change, but same error occur 
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