I'm running Fedora-3 with KDE. I've been trying to get a recent version of NM working on my laptop. (I was told this might help get NM running with my Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card.)
I first tried to install NetworkManager-0.4-6.cvs20050404.i386.rpm but this came up with a huge list of required packages which are not available in Fedora Core updates. I don't want to install a large number of rawhide packages, as the last time I did this it caused confusion (mainly due to the new python) which took a long time to correct.
So then I downloaded the CVS files following the instructions at <http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/downloadcontribute.html>, and ran "./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc" as advised. This failed at the "configure" stage, but created a configure file. On running configure I get the error below, saying that I require hal >= 0.2.91 , although I appear to have hal-0.4.7. Apparently configure is lookint for the file hal.pc which does not appear to be part of my system.
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[tim@martha NetworkManager]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
...
checking for hal >= 0.2.91... Package hal was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `hal.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'hal' found
configure: error: Library requirements (hal >= 0.2.91) not met; consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
[tim@martha NetworkManager]$ grep hal /var/log/rpmpkgs
hal-0.4.7-1.FC3.i386.rpm
hal-cups-utils-0.5.2-8.i386.rpm
[tim@martha NetworkManager]$ locate hal.pc
[tim@martha NetworkManager]$
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Any suggestions or advice gratefully received.
When you are building software, you need the -devel packages for the libraries you are using (in this case you need hal-devel) in addition to the regular "runtime" libraries.
# yum install hal-devel
Paul.
