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compile acerhk: make does nothing

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   Anonymous
   

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   I have an old Medion 40100 laptop, on which the wifi doesn't work. I read on the interwebs that I could enable it with the "acerhk" utility.

   So I downloaded it, but when I try to use "make" to compile the package, first I had an error that make could not be found. I installed automake and make with tazpkg. Now I do have this command, but when I enter "make" in the directory, there is no output.

   After pressing enter, the prompt doesn't return, so make seems to be running. But other than that: no response.

   Any idea's? Or is manually compiling stuff just not done in Slitaz? :)

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Trixar_za
   

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   Install slitaz-toolchain and slitaz-dev-pkgs - it should give you the basic tools you'll need to compile applications. You may have to install other *-dev packages to make it work, so read the INSTALL and README file to see what it's requirements are.

   Also the general steps taken to compile something is:
   1. ./configure - This tells the compiler what tools/libs are available on your system and informs you of any missing requirements.
   2. make - Compiles the programs within the directory
   3. make install (as root) - Installs the program so you can use it.

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   Ok cool. The installation notes also say I need the kernel headers, but I couldn't find that package as well. I searched for image and kernel but I guess the name is different than in Debian. Do you happen to know this pkg too? Or is it included in the pkgs you mentioned?

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   And I did compile stuff on debian boxed before so I have little experience with that but thanks for the time to explain that as well. This support forum is really helpfull. Thx!

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   kernel headers? Ah, you'll need to install linux-headers package too. So this is a kernel driver. Hopefully you won't need to download the kernel sources to make this.

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   Yes I think so, it will be a module that can be loaded with modprobe. Hmmm i thought i did tazpkg search linux .. I'll try again and report back. Thanks.

   Posted 12 years ago #

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