Re: alternative airport extreme card
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>
huntm@tabernacle:~/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>
huntm@tabernacle:~/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.
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