[PlanetCCRMA] Installing wireless card

[Joseph Zitt]

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 04:57:37 -0800 (PST)
Juan Reyes <juanig@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> I think there was a posting on the planetCCRMA list last Thursday or
> Friday with instructions on building the kernel. But anyhow the main
> problem you have is getting hard-drive space a new kernel might be at
> least 30 more megs if I am not mistaken. Make sure your new partition
> is automatically mounted on /etc/fstab with the right permissions.

Looking at the docs more carefully, I see that, if I'm lucky, I may not
have to rebuild the whole kernel, but just to have the source tree
unpacked to build the modules. Which leads to a simpler question: how
can I get the kernel source RPM to unpack into a different place on
another partition (which is, indeed, mounted appropriately via
/etc/fstab). I suspect there's a way to do it in the mad nest of rpm
options, but it's eluding me.

> On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> 
> > I've gotten a Netgear MA401 PCMCIA wireless card for my laptop, and
> > downloaded the appropriate drivers from Netgear's site.
> > 
> > Will I have to rebuild my kernel in order to use it?
> > 
> > If so: I've downloaded the kernel source RPM from Planet CCRMA, but
> > don't have room to put what it tries to put into /usr/src into my
> > root partition. I've tried to create a directory for it on another
> > partition and to symlink it to /usr/src, but rpm complained:
> > 
> > Executing RPM (-ivh)...
> > Preparing...               
> > ###########################################
> > [100%]
> >    1:kernel-source          error: unpacking of archive failed on
> >    file
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-1.ll/include/asm;3e1fe8da: cpio: symlink
> > failed - Operation not permitted
> > E: Sub-process /bin/rpm returned an error code (1)
> > 
> > Is there a way to do this? I've tried removing what I could from my
> > root partition without making much of a dent in it.
> > 
> > 
> 
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