<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 March 2010 12:11, Cherry Withers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cwithers@ekindling.org">cwithers@ekindling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi All,<br><br>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:<br>1) downloaded the linux driver support for the chipset<br> 2) untar the file in my SoaS root directory<br>3) but on the step where I had to run "make".. no dice. <br><br>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. <br> <br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">Cherry</font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cherry,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not a Fedora user, but this should lead you on the right way. Try going into terminal then typing <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><b>yum groupinstall "Development Tools"</b>. The quotes are important.</span></div> <div><br></div><div>Once you've done that, try these commands. Omit square brackets.</div><div><br></div><div>cd /path/to/extracted/tar/file [go to right place]</div><div>./configure [tell compiler about your system]</div> <div>make [generate instructions for compiler]</div><div>sudu su [change to root user]</div><div>make install [compile software]</div><div>exit [return to normal user]</div><div><br></div><div>-Tim.</div></div>