Help with hostap 0.2.6 and with 0.1.3

Jar jar at pcuf.fi
Tue Mar 8 10:04:15 EST 2005


>> Hello everyone,
>> This question might be a little old looking at the current hostap versions out
>> there. However, I am stuck with an old version of the kernel. I am trying to
>> install
>> hostap-driver-0.2.6 to my RedHat Linux 9.0 box(kernel: 2.4.20-8). Initially when I
>> tried to install I got an error saying that it did not find a .config file. So I
>> went to /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8 and did a make xconfig and created a .config file
>> without changing the existing kernel configuration.
>
> How about:
>
> 1. Install the kernel-source.rpm which version is the same as the current running
> kernel.
> 2. cd /usr/src/
> 3. Do symbolic link linux-2.4.20-8 --> linux
> 4. cd linux and do "make mrproper"
> 5. copy /boot/config-2.4.20-8 /usr/src/linux/.config
> 6. Run "make dep"
> 7. Compile & install hostap normally

5.1. Run make oldconfig

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Best Regards, Jar



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