Yes, I agree I should get a much newer version, however the application
vendor we are using requires the version they developed on. There IDE
environment needs certain library versions. With an OS update their
application does not work.
Ok, download and reading the README install instructions
No such thing as a generic kernel configuration in the way that you’re saying.
You’re going at this sideways, and we don’t even know what kind of laptop
you’re running. Also, I wonder how much experience you have with Linux in
general. So far the only version numbers you’ve provided are for an
Hi Todd,
The computer does not have any type of networking, just ‘lo’ shows up using
‘ifconfig -a’. That is my problem trying to fix this. It definitely would
be easier if I can use apt-get.
I have to type everything. So doing the best I can within a reasonable
amount of time.
I need to compile
Oh, and you never did tell us what version of Ubuntu you're running, either.
Most likely it's no longer supported, but I'm not sure why you're having so
much trouble with the drivers.
Todd Fujinaka
Software Application Engineer
Datacenter Engineering Group
Intel Corporation
First, you really haven't shown us any of the error messages you're getting.
Second, you really do need the kernel headers for your version of the kernel.
When you install the kernel headers, you should've done something like "apt
install linux-headers-`uname -r`" (everything within the quotes)
Well,
There are 'invalid module format' errors trying to install the
re-compile .ko files from '2.6.32.24'. Is there a version mis-match?
If so how do I configure for generic and can I change the version? I
need version '2.6.32-24-generic'. If that is the problem. I guess I
could try to force the
Hi Jeffrey,
I finally found the version.h and autoconf.h files in the
include/linux directory. This was after creating the kernel .config
file and re-compiling the entire kernel and modules. I will try the
included modules and if still do not work, will compile the separate
downloaded modules
