i really need some help with the madwifi installation commands

[the_taco]

i have been making the switch over to linux day by day, and i have an acer aspire 3680-2633 and i can not get the wireless drivers working, i am able to compile the drivers, but i can not install them, i really dont know what to do
i have the atheros 5007eg wireless adapter, and im using the mad wifi drivers

im using the commands:
# tar xvzf madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz
# cd madwifi-0.9.4
# make
# make install


i get stuck after the make command

if anyone has a good tutorial on how to use linux, any help would be greatly appreciated

-Taco

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[the_taco]

i am having trouble compiling and installing the drivers for the atheros ar5007eg im using the madwifi-0.9.4 drivers

im using the method of
# tar xvzf madwifi-0.9.4.tar.gz (or tar xvjf package.tar.bz2)
# cd madwifi-0.9.4
# make
# make install

and i still dont have wifi on the laptop, any help would be greatly appreciated

and if anyone has a big tutorial on how to use linux please let me know

[purehate]

Threads merged do not start two threads with the same content and different titles. This is called double posting.

Its because that card requires a patch

wget 'http://snapshots.madwifi.org/special/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz'
tar zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz
cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007
make clean
make
make install
reboot
ifconfig ath0 up

[the_taco]

sorry about the double post, i didnt know my post was reviewed, sould have read the massage that came up
sorry

-Taco

[Archangel-Amael]

hmm WOW try to install BackTrack and go...
it's simple...everything is to be a good (( i don't now what do you thing and ...working
sorry english is ****

BYE BYE)

yeah your on your way to the corner or out the door.
have fun

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[zeta-51]

I followed your instructions that you posted here but I got this in return after I did the #make clean , I got this :
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/build: no such file or directory
Makefile.inc:66 *** /lib/modules/2.6.21.5/build is missing, please set KERNELPATH. stop
Please be kind yes I am a linux noob.I would like to know how to correct. I have looked every place in google, I have read the slack book, I am at a loss. Please send help.