Thread: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
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2012-03-13 , 23:28
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Originally Posted by 1DarkChaos View Post
sorry for my noobness but how do i install the new source code?
please help, thank you!
General compiling...
For small things, it can be done on-device. So, download the tar.gz and unpack into an ext3 folder (not MyDocs).
Once decompressed, the normal procedure is to list all objects in the folder e.g.
Code:
cd /home/user/<folder>
ls -a
Sometimes, there's a configure script. If so, run
Code:
./<conf-scr>
Then finally, one runs a "make" tool, which creates the executable as per the instructions in the configuration:
Code:
sudo ./make install
- the appropriate complier(s) must be installed if source is not written in a scripting language.

For large software, compile on a pc (using scratchbox, creator, etc.) and make sure you're building for arm/x11 (or maemo5 if possible!)

HTH
 

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