[Solved] Cannot compile driver for rt61 WLAN card - why?

[vit_user]

Hello,
trying to compile driver for ralink rt61 WLAN card in Etch. Having follow error:

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# make all
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build SUBDIRS=/home/Temp/RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.1.0.0/Module modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

What's wrong? I've installed kernel-package and linux-kernel headers

[greenhat]

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make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

OK it seems your build dir doesn't exist. For me "build" is just a symlink to /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 like so..

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$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root  35 Mar 30 18:54 /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686

I don't remember ever having to manually create the symlink , but anyway you can do it from terminal (as root)

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$ ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 /lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/build

and then try it. You should first verify that your linux-headers are really there.

[vit_user]

This was a problem: no linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686 has been installed.
Thanks for the help!