[Orinoco-users] FC6 + orinoco_usb

[David W. Legg]

Has anyone got the orinoco_usb driver to work under Fedora Core 6, please?

I got the latest one from cvs, moved the firmware .h file into the build
directory and started a make. It complained as follows:

[***@antares orinoco]# make
make -C /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586
M=/root/Desktop/NEW_ORINOCO/orinoco KERNELRELEASE= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586'
CC [M] /root/Desktop/NEW_ORINOCO/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.o
/root/Desktop/NEW_ORINOCO/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.c:43:26: error:
linux/config.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [/root/Desktop/NEW_ORINOCO/orinoco/orinoco_nortel.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Desktop/NEW_ORINOCO/orinoco] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i586'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

This is despite havign kernel headers etc installed:
[***@antares orinoco]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6

Any steers would be appreciated.
Ta.

[Paul Matthias Diderichsen]

Hi David,

Post by David W. Legg
I got the latest one from cvs, moved the firmware .h file into the build

[...]

Post by David W. Legg
linux/config.h: No such file or directory

I'm really not the expert here, but apparently, the config.h got removed
in FC6 (after the testing release). Try taking a google on "config.h fc6"
or similar. It seems that the problem may be fixed by touching the
config.h in the right dir or copying the file from a previous fedora
release.

Hope this helps you a little.

Kind regards & happy new year! :-)

[David W. Legg]

Thanks, Paul.
I've just noticed that I was using the orinoco_usb sources from cvs
which are terribly out of date. Maybe somebody should delete them?

I got the latest ones out of subversion and had a working driver in a
few minutes on x86_64/FC5.

However, there was a slight wrinkle. I put the firmware in the wrong
place at my first attempt, because this page
http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/install.html
says they go in /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware.
However, the correct location is /lib/firmware/
as per this page:
http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/orinoco-usb/

Just recording this for those who get stuck and google ...

Will try FC6 again some-time.
:D

[Pavel Roskin]

Post by David W. Legg
Thanks, Paul.
I've just noticed that I was using the orinoco_usb sources from cvs
which are terribly out of date. Maybe somebody should delete them?

Done. Sorry for inconvenience.