On 1 March 2010 12:11, Cherry Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > I've been trying to run SoaS on both my Windows XP and Vista netbooks and > ran into the problem of not being able get a wifi access. So I went through > these exercise: > 1) downloaded the linux driver support for the chipset > 2) untar the file in my SoaS root directory > 3) but on the step where I had to run "make".. no dice. > > I am a newbie Linux user. I'm using the blueberry version of SoaS. Is there > supposed to be a developer version that I have to be using instead which has > make and C compiler installed? Please advice thank you! Please don't send > me into the wiki labyrinth. > > Thanks, > Cherry Cherry, I'm not a Fedora user, but this should lead you on the right way. Try going into terminal then typing *yum groupinstall "Development Tools"*. The quotes are important. Once you've done that, try these commands. Omit square brackets. cd /path/to/extracted/tar/file [go to right place] ./configure [tell compiler about your system] make [generate instructions for compiler] sudu su [change to root user] make install [compile software] exit [return to normal user] -Tim.
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