Hi Tim, Thanks. But I can't do "yum" because it relies on a network connection which I don't have in the first place. At least that's how I thought it works.
:( --Cherry On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Tim McNamara <paperl...@timmcnamara.co.nz>wrote: > On 1 March 2010 12:11, Cherry Withers <cwith...@ekindling.org> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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