no rule to make target kernel/bounds.c

[RegPerrin]

I have answered my own question.
I discovered that for some reason the process does not like to be inside too many folders !
My problem was that I had put the extracted folder from the tar.gz inside another on my desktop, instead of extracting the folder itslef to the desktop.

Wrong:
Desktop->WirelessInstalls->RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0

Correct:
Desktop->RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0

The makefile sits inside the RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0 folder.

Whether or not this makes sense, or why it should make any difference at all, I don't know. Nevertheless, I simply extracted the RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0 folder straight to the desktop, opened in terminal, typed checkinstall, and bingo, it all works.

Cheers for anyone who started giving this some thought for me.

[HubertB]

I think the problem is the "space" between "Wireless" and "installers" in the directory name "/home/testrig4ub64/Desktop/Wireless installers/RT2870_LinuxSTA_V2.3.0.0/tools" because it says "make: /home/testrig4ub64/Desktop/Wireless: Command not found"

[go_linux]

In some case some extra steps are required to make it compile.

Doing apt-get install linux-sources and decompressing the file is not sufficient.
After doing that step you also need to:
1. cd /usr/src/linux-source-{Version}/
(To find the value to replace in {Version} do: uname -r and use only the dot separated numbers, if
there is dash something, please discard everything after and including the dash)

2. sudo cp -vi /boot/config-`uname -r` .config

3. sudo make oldconfig

4. cd /lib/modules/`uname -r`

5. Check if the build softlink is pointing to /usr/src/linux-header-* by doing:
ls -l

6. If you see something like:
... build -> /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-16-generic
then proceed with 6.1, otherwise jump to step 7
6.1 then switch the softlink, first by deleting build:
sudo rm build
6.2 and then create the new link by doing:
sudo ln -s /usr/src/{Version} build

7. It is not required for this, but it won't hurt if you create
/usr/src/linux symlink
for that do:
sudo ln -s /usr/src/{Version} /usr/src/linux

8. Now go ahead and build those drivers

Good Luck!

[joyboyhardik@yahoo.com]

There is no bounds.c or bounds.h or nay bounds fine in kernal folder call it source or header

I have similar problem

I tried everything
still i get this

root@ubuntu:/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic# make
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
SYMLINK include/asm -> include/asm-x86
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `kernel/bounds.c', needed by `kernel/bounds.s'. Stop.
make: *** [prepare0] Error 2

[HubertB]

Really? I bet 1000 bucks that it's there. Are you in?

Running Ubuntu 10.04:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.32-16 linux-source-2.6.32
$ cd /usr/src
$ sudo tar xvjf linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2
$ find /usr/src -name "bounds.*" -ls
2629663    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          526 Dec  3 04:51 ./linux-source-2.6.32/kernel/bounds.c
2502234    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          224 Mar  9 22:49 ./linux-headers-2.6.32-16-generic-pae/include/linux/bounds.h
2507692    4 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         3738 Mar  9 22:49 ./linux-headers-2.6.32-16-generic-pae/kernel/bounds.s

Please wire 500 dollar each to Debian and to to Canonical as a donation for their great work. Thanks

[joyboyhardik@yahoo.com]

hmmm.. tell me onething..

i am reading this book in which it has a hello.c program for the driver thing..

after saving that it asks me to use this command in the kernel

make

ddoes this command take hours?

[HubertB]

Compiling the kernel indeed does take some time.

[scctor]

I m a new to Ubuntu and to device drivers.
Even I have same problem as discussed in this thread.
The package linux-source-2.6.31.14 is not found.
--------------
sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.31.14
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package linux-source-2.6.31.14
--------------

Any help is appreciated.

[HubertB]

You're running Karmic, right? Then this is what you need:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.31

[scctor]

This is what I get when I do
sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.31

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
libncurses-dev ncurses-dev kernel-package libqt3-dev
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-source-2.6.31
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 242 not upgraded.
Need to get 62.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 62.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic-updates/main linux-source-2.6.31 2.6.31-20.58
Could not resolve 'in.archive.ubuntu.com'
Err http://security.ubuntu.com karmic-security/main linux-source-2.6.31 2.6.31-20.58
Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/po...-20.58_all.deb Could not resolve 'security.ubuntu.com'
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

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