Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

[chris jackson <cmichaeljackson@gmail.com>]

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.