From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: This is a fresh installation of Fedora Core 2 on a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. Everything installed successfully except the wireless card, which is the troublesome broadcom chip-based Intel 2100 series. During configuration of the wireless card, the instructions tell me to select a couple additional cryptology options in the menuconfig screen. After going into the "/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build" directory I ran "make menuconfig" which ran ok. Selected the two options I needed and saved the kernel changes. Fedora then instructed me to run "make". This is the result: SPLIT include/linux/autoconf.h -> include/config/* CHK include/asm-i386/asm_offsets.h make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'. Stop. make: *** [init] Error 2 I have not upgraded the kernel or anything yet, everything is the default installation right off the isos. Ran a "whereis" search for the main.o file with no success. Found no other reference to this problem so far. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.5-1.358 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go into /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build directory. 2.Run "make config" and select ARC4 cipher algorithm and CRC32 in cryptology group. Save kernel changes and exit. 3.Run "make" Actual Results: Ran into an error asking for a file called "main.o" in the "init" directory. Expected Results: Should have re-compiled the kernel as normal with the new options updated. Additional info:
Modifying the kernel or enabling more options is not supported by the Fedora Project. Your options are: 1) Try the latest rawhide kernel instead, which may work better for your needs in this regard. 2) Build an upstream kernel. In any case Fedora's kernel is always very close to upstream, so this is most likely an upstream bug. You may also want to check out the mailing lists, as I recall there being other complaints about your particular wireless card and the kernel.