On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 10:42, Chris Anderson wrote about getting a dwl-122 usb wireless stick working under Debian:
> > > You don't. Your only option for an ibook g4 or powerbook 12" is to use a > > > usb wlan adapter. I'm using a DWL-122 without issue personally. > > > > I currently have one on order for my G4 ibook. Do you have, or could you > > pointy me to, debian specific instructions for setting this up ??? Was > > there anything particular to debian/ppc that you had to do in order to > > make this work ??? (I am totally new to wireless under linux having only > > set this stuff up under that other OS). > > Download the latest linux-wlan-ng release from linux-wlan.org. Untar it > and then run 'make config', you'll want the prism usb driver when it > asks. Then when configuring is done just install it with 'make all; make > install'. OK. Got my DWL-122 today and have tested it under OS X and it is all working fine with my Minitar AP. (For the question about Mac OS X stability make sure you get the latest drivers from http://dlink.com/products/support.asp?pid=175#drivers) Anyhow under linux when I go to compile the drivers after downloading the latest linux-wlan-ng as suggested it 'spits the dummy'[0] during the config stage. I have reproduced the error below :- <snipped from console> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre21$ make config -------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script ------------- The default responses are correct for most users. Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]: n Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]: n Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: y Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]: Linux source tree /usr/src/linux is incomplete or missing! See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources. Configuration failed make: *** [config] Error 1 </snip> If I specify another source for the directory (say /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8 which is the extracted location of the version installed by the kernel-source package) or symlink /usr/src/linux to the source directory it spits out : <snipped from console> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre21$ make config -------------- Linux WLAN Configuration Script ------------- The default responses are correct for most users. Build Prism2.x PCMCIA Card Services (_cs) driver? (y/n) [y]: n Build Prism2 PLX9052 based PCI (_plx) adapter driver? (y/n) [n]: n Build Prism2.5 native PCI (_pci) driver? (y/n) [n]: n Build Prism2.5 USB (_usb) driver? (y/n) [n]: n Linux source directory [/usr/src/linux]: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8 Linux source tree /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8 is incomplete or missing! The kernel header files are present, but not the full source code. See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources. Configuration failed make: *** [config] Error 1 </snip> I even installed the kernel-build, kernel-headers, kernel-patch and kernel-tree packages for 2.6.8 and still no luck. The kernel I am using at the moment is the default and while I realise that I could compile my own and that this should work I can't understand why it is isn't at the moment. I'm sure it is something simple that I am doing wrong but I don't know what. Can anyone help ??? Michael Hunt [0] Australian for doesn't like it. Can also say 'chucks a sad' which roughly means the same thing.
