I installed etch about a week and a half ago, and it picked up the
ipw2200 as part of the regular installation routine. All I had to do
was download the firmware (as you'll find it on the sourceforge page for
the ipw2200 driver), put it into the hotplug directory
(/usr/lib/hotplug) and bam, it worked. Of course, this is after the
system's installed, so I had to use my e100 ethernet for the actual
installation. Fiddling with the ieee80211 driver is annoying to get to
work. I'd suggest (if you aren't too far into it already) to just
reinstall the system, try to do the firmware step (granted that it's
picking up the ipw2200 in the bootup, which it should if you're doing a
2.6.12+ kernel, and since etch uses a 2.6.15 you're fine) and see if
that works a bit better. Then I just added in an entry in
/etc/network/interfaces to pick up my WEP network at load, and
everything's perfect (the network-admin tool that comes with gnome is
occasionally useful, but I've been finding it to be a bit flaky,
especially going from one network to another). Apparently there's a way
to write in different locales in /etc/network/interfaces to circumvent
network-admin completely, I haven't fiddled with it.
hope that's a bit useful to you!
chris
James Brown wrote:
All,
I'm fairly new to Debian and have Etch installed on a Samsung M40 with
a custom kernel:
# uname -a
# Linux cloudburst 2.6.8 #1 Sun Oct 2 00:46:23 BST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
I'd like to install the ipw2200 Wifi drivers, but am struggling.
Here's what I'm doing:
1. apt-get update
2. m-a a-i ieee80211-source
3. apt-get install ipw2200-source
4. cd /usr/src; tar xzf ipw2200-source.tar.gz
5. m-a a-i ipw2200
Unfortunately, step five fails with the following errors in the buildlog:
> [...]
In file included from /usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:33:
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1131: error: variable or
field `__iomem' declared void
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1131: warning: no semicolon
at end of struct or union
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1131: error: syntax error
before '*' token
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1248: error: `up'
redeclared as different kind of symbol
include/asm/semaphore.h:197: error: previous declaration of `up'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1249: error: `down'
redeclared as different kind of symbol
include/asm/semaphore.h:115: error: previous declaration of `down'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1303: error: syntax error
before '}' token
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:47: error: conflicting
types for `cmdlog'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1273: error: previous
declaration of `cmdlog'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:49: error: conflicting
types for `channel'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1192: error: previous
declaration of `channel'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:53: error: conflicting
types for `associate'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.h:1241: error: previous
declaration of `associate'
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c: In function `__ipw_read8':
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:278: error: dereferencing
pointer to incomplete type
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c: In function `__ipw_read16':
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:287: error: dereferencing
pointer to incomplete type
> [... ~100 lines ...]
usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:11826: error: dereferencing
pointer to incomplete type
/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.c:11826: error: dereferencing
pointer to incomplete type
make[4]: *** [/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver/ipw2200.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8'
make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ipw2200/driver'
make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ipw2200'
make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
I would really appreciate any advice you could give me.
Many thanks in advance,
James.
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