Re: Troubleshooting 802.11b wireless
Quoting Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer@earthlink.net>:
> On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:48, Joe Carey wrote:
> > It's the wrong driver. You're using the driver for an
> > Agere/Proxim/Orinoco card, i.e. "Hermes" on a card built with the
> > Prism2.5 chipset. You probably want the linux-wlan-ng drivers.
> >
> > Check these links:
> > http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/linux-wlan-ng
> > http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
> >
> > Have fun!
> >
> > joe
>
> That doesn't quite make sense to me. If the driver is wrong than why
> does it report that it detected an "Orinoco/Prism2 PCI device" and then
> gets information from it like the MAC address and firmware revision?
> This fellow http://members.iinet.net.au/~mtriggs/wireless.html got his
> card to work with the orinoco_pci driver.
>
> Unfortunately, the latest release of linux-wlan-ng doesn't work with
> 2.6, although that support is coming down the pipe in the next release
> according to the CHANGELOG at linux-wlan.com. I attempted to build the
> module from their source tree for 0.2.1-pre20, but it expects a file
> [kernel-source-root]/.tmp_versions to be present, which is not shipped
> with kernel-headers-2.6.3-1-686 (or its dependency). So, without
> actually building my own kernel, what would it take to get a kernel
> source tree that matched the one used to build the stock Debian kernel
> verbatim?
>
Generally you have to do at least copy the .config file and do a "make
dep" after installing the kernel sources before you have anything
usable by other packages.
HTH,
Jeffrey
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