Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux
> driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware
> revision of your particular card. For your card there
> appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported
> to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this
> link to help you figure out which revision you have:
> http://support.dlink.com/products/DWLG650.asp
>
> If you are lucky and have the C1 revision, use the
> MadWiFi Linux driver. If not, try the Prism or Madwifi
> drivers and if you can't get them to work,fall back
> to the ndiswrapper approach -- but if at all possible
> use a native Linux driver.
>
> Once you've figured out if you have the C1 revision or
> not, post back here if you need help with getting the
> driver included in the kernel and other setup, or if
> you need help with ndiswrapper.
>
> HTH
>
> Mark
my card has 'B4' on the back.
i downloaded the host ap driver for the Prism chipset and tried to compile
it. the compile was unsuccessful. the error messages are excerpted here: .
.
.
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /home/kloro/linux/hostap-driver-0.4.7/driver/modules/hostap.c:21:
include/asm/processor.h:87: error: array type has incomplete element type
In file included from include/linux/netdevice.h:151,
from include/linux/if_arp.h:26,
.
.
.
make[2]: ***
[/home/kloro/linux/hostap-driver-0.4.7/driver/modules/hostap.o] Error 1
make[1]: ***
[_module_/home/kloro/linux/hostap-driver-0.4.7/driver/modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386'
make: *** [2.6] Error 2
thanks,
tom arnall
north spit, ca
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