implicity

i'm trying to install linux wireless drivers on my new computer, Sonja, and it's not going well.
for some reason the Readme file is telling me to invoke 'make' with a option SUBDIRS=blahblahblah and make either isn't finding blahblahblah or isn't finding the files that should be there or thinks that something else is somewhere it isn't or just hates me.
reboot Windows, reboot Linux..