Re: DWL-122 dlink usb and FC4

Richard Kennedy <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:42:51 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.linux-wlan.user
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> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 09:33:20 -0500
> From: "George Gallen" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [lwlan-user] DWL-122 dlink usb and FC4 
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> Speaking of DWL122's...
> 
> I have a FC4 machine that I want to use one of these on, my problem is
> that I don't have the drive space to load / compile the source or barely
> have enough space.
> 
> Is there a way to configure a machine to use the USB wifi without
> having to recompile the kernal?
> 
> Thanks
> George

George,

If you install the kernel-devel package for your installed Fedora
kernel. It contains only the required headers and makefiles to build
external drivers. You don't need the full kernel source or rebuilding
your kernel.
Once kernel-devel is installed build the wlan as normal.
HTH

Richard