problem building lirc modules

When I run 'm-a a-i lirc' I get this error:

echo " ERROR: Kernel configuration is invalid."; \
echo " include/linux/autoconf.h or include/config/auto.conf are missing."; \
echo " Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src to fix it."; \

I don't really know how to "Run 'make oldconfig && make prepare' on kernel src".
Could somebody help me out? I tried running that command in
/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common but I got these errors, so I assume I did it wrong.

scripts/Makefile.build:44: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common/scripts/basic/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-5-common/scripts/basic/Makefile'. Stop.
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

-Rob


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