Re: Building zd1211 drivers fore WiFi dongle

[Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>]

Perhaps it's a bug with module-assistant.
I asked in list and perhaps it's related [http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2008/05/msg00094.html]

Regards,
Xan.

En/na johncohn ha escrit:

Wouter,
    Thanks this looks like just what I need. I have module-assistant up and
configured. When I enter 

m-a install zd1211

It doesn't seem to find the source files.. Where do the source files need to
be ? the file 
zd1211.tar.bz2 which was in /usr/src  ..  then

m-a install zd1211  still failed.. it gave me 

 Package zd1211-source was not built successfully, see
     │ /var/cache/modass/zd1211-source*buildlog* for details!


but /var/cache/modass is empty

I then cd'ed int /usr/src and manually unpacked the tarball into /usr/src 
and tried m-a install zd1211 again and again it failed as above

I then moved the unpacked zd1211 int /usr/src/modules/zd1211  (and then
renamed it to zd1211-source) and both gave the same response

I then cd'd into /usr/src/modules/zf1211-source and did a 'make' and got
this 

/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-ixp4xx/build
/usr/src/modules/zd1211-source
-I/usr/src/modules/zd1211-source/src/include -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -DZDCONF_WE_STAT_SUPPORT=1 -DHOST_IF_USB -DAMAC
-DGCCK -DOFDM -DHOSTAPD_SUPPORT -DUSE_EP4_SET_REG -DDOWNLOADFIRMWARE
-DfTX_GAIN_OFDM=0 -DfNEW_CODE_MAP=1 -DfWRITE_WORD_REG=1 -DfREAD_MUL_REG=1
-DENHANCE_RX=1 -DZD1211
src/zd1205.o src/zdasocsvc.o src/zdauthreq.o src/zdauthrsp.o src/zdmmrx.o
src/zdshared.o src/zdhci.o src/zdglobal.o src/zdencrypt.o src/zdpmfilter.o
src/zdpsmon.o src/zdsynch.o src/zdbuf.o src/zd1205_proc.o src/zdhw.o
src/zddebug.o src/zdtkipseed.o src/zdmic.o src/zdusb.o src/zd1211.o
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-ixp4xx/build
SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/zd1211-source modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-ixp4xx/build: No such file or directory. 
Stop.
make: *** [all] Error 2

I know I'm flailing here.. but it's so much fun !.. Any pointers on better
paths to becoming less of a newb here much appreciated. 

Thanks
-jc



Wouter Verhelst wrote:
  

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 07:41:53PM -0700, johncohn wrote:
    

Note.. I posted this same query in the nabble nslu2-linux forum. Someone
there suggested I try here as well. tnx

Folks.
I'm a total newb in both the debian and slug worlds... but I'm already
having a blast... and want to get fluent in these things.  Right now I'm
trying to get a zd1211 based wifi USB dongle working with my slug using
the
instructions here  . I poked around some and learned that someone had
built
the zd1211 drivers in a package called zd12111-firmware. When I try to
install it I get

LKG7CD387:~#  apt-get install zd1211-firmware
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Package zd1211-firmware is not available, but is referred to by another
package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package zd1211-firmware has no installation candidate

I looked further and found a package called zd1211-source, which I
downloaded. From what I can tell, that gave me a file called
zd1211.tar.bz2
in /usr/src .. Now, I suspect that  most folks know what to do with that
type of file.
      

You want to use module-assistant to compile and install this for you:

apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare
m-a install zd1211

However, the zd1211 stuff has been orphaned recently, so it's possible
that it doesn't work currently. AIUI, the problem is that the maintainer
doesn't have any zd1211 hardware anymore to test with; I'd take over, if
not for the fact that my hardware died, too (and that I'm not a kernel
person).

-- 
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  -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22


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