Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

[Ivan Glushkov <glushkov@mail.desy.de>]

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

Hi James,

I have no idea what the command m-a should do/mean. But I did compiled 
ipw2200 as an additional module . Maybe you should take a look at

/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/HOWTO-Linux-2.6-Woody.gz
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.modules

(Of course to see that you should have installed kernel-package)

   I hope that helps.
   Cheers,
   IVan

> 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.