linux-wlan-ng, rebuild kernel?
Dear Debian Users,
First, I would like to say that I am not very experienced and any
suggestions would
help me greatly.
I recently installed Debian on my powerbook G4 12'.
As expected the Airport extreme
wireless card does not work and I bought a D-link DWL-122 usb wireless card.
I read that
it should work with the linux-wlan-ng drivers.
I don't really understand how to install the drivers. I tried the config
script and I had the following error:
raph:/usr/src/modules/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre22# 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 [/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/build]:
Linux source tree /lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/build is incomplete or missing!
See the HOWTO for a list of FTP sites for current kernel sources.
Configuration failed
make: *** [config] Error 1
Does that mean that I have to recompile the kernel? From my understanding
yes but
I don't really trust myself.
I tried anyways, I put linux-wlan-ng in /usr/src/modules
and downloaded kernel-source-2.6.8, which is the one that got
installed when I installed debian with Sarge.
Then I followed the manual, that is I created a symbolic link in
/usr/src/ called linux then cd to /usr/src/linux did
#make xconfig
I did not change anything as I don't really understand, should I?
and then
#make-kpkg kernel_image modules_image
and I got the following error, which is down below but I copy the
whole thing in case you need it.
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules INCLUDE_KERNEL_MAKEFILE=yes conf_vars
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `conf_vars'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
make: *** [conf.vars] Error 2
raph:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg buildpackage kernel-image
/usr/bin/make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/rules real_stamp_clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
test ! -f .config || cp -pf .config config.precious
test -f Makefile && \
/usr/bin/make ARCH=ppc distclean
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
CLEAN scripts/basic
CLEAN scripts/kconfig
CLEAN .config .config.old include/linux/autoconf.h
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
test ! -f config.precious || mv -f config.precious .config
test ! -f stamp-patch || /usr/bin/make -f /usr/share/kernel-package/rules
unpatch_now
test -f stamp-building || test -f debian/official || rm -rf debian
# work around idiocy in recent kernel versions
test ! -e scripts/package/builddeb.dist || \
mv -f scripts/package/builddeb.dist scripts/package/builddeb
test ! -e scripts/package/Makefile.dist || \
mv -f scripts/package/Makefile.dist scripts/package/Makefile
rm -f modules/modversions.h modules/ksyms.ver debian/files conf.vars
scripts/cramfs/cramfsck scripts/cramfs/mkcramfs applied_patches
debian/buildinfo stamp-build stamp-configure stamp-source stamp-image
stamp-headers stamp-src stamp-diff stamp-doc stamp-buildpackage
stamp-libc-kheaders stamp-debian stamp-patch stamp-kernel-configure
rm -rf debian/tmp-source debian/tmp-headers debian/tmp-image debian/tmp-doc
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
# work around idiocy in recent kernel versions
test ! -e scripts/package/builddeb || \
mv -f scripts/package/builddeb scripts/package/builddeb.dist
test ! -e scripts/package/Makefile || \
(mv -f scripts/package/Makefile scripts/package/Makefile.dist &&
\
touch scripts/package/Makefile)
test ! -f stamp-debian && test ! -f debian/official && \
rm -rf ./debian && mkdir ./debian
make: [stamp-debian] Error 1 (ignored)
test ! -f stamp-debian && \
( test ! -f debian/official || test ! -f debian/control) && \
sed -e 's/=V/2.6.8/g' -e 's/=D/2.6.8-7/g' \
-e 's/=A/powerpc/g' -e 's/=SA//g' \
-e 's/=L/yaboot, /g' -e 's/=I//g' \
-e 's/=CV/2.6/g' \
-e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer
<unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g' \
/usr/share/kernel-package/Control> debian/control
make: [stamp-debian] Error 1 (ignored)
test ! -f stamp-debian && test ! -f debian/official && \
sed -e 's/=V/2.6.8/g' -e 's/=D/2.6.8-7/g' \
-e 's/=A/powerpc/g' -e 's/=M/Unknown Kernel Package Maintainer
<unknown@unconfigured.in.etc.kernel-pkg.conf>/g' \
/usr/share/kernel-package/changelog > debian/changelog
make: [stamp-debian] Error 1 (ignored)
test ! -f debian/rules && \
install -p -m 755 /usr/share/kernel-package/rules debian/rules
make: [stamp-debian] Error 1 (ignored)
echo done > stamp-debian
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules INCLUDE_KERNEL_MAKEFILE=yes conf_vars
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `conf_vars'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8'
make: *** [conf.vars] Error 2
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!!
Raphael
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