Wlan in Mandrake 10

[rockpc]

I have just installed mandrake 10 on my pc as a dual boot with win xp. I am pretty much a newbie with linux although i have messed around with some cd based stuff like Knoppix and DSL. The problems is that my atmel based wireless lan usb adapter does not work and i need it to get on to the net . It came with a cd with some drivers for mandrake 9 and i have tried using the step by step thing with that but when i tried doing the 'make menuconfig' command in the konsole i got errors saying i didn't have permission. I tried using the atmel wlan driver from sourceforge but i had exactly the same problem. Can anyone help??? it is a

Cnet

CNUSB-611

[rockpc]

it says:

[sam@localhost linux-2.6.3-7mdk]$ make menuconfig
make[1]: `scripts/fixdep' is up to date.
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/mconf
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file scripts/kconfig/mconf: Permission denied
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

[tuxfreak]

you must be root to use 'make'
while in a console window type 'su' then the password of the root acct
this will give you root permissions