Re: linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Monday 15 November 2004 22:14, Friedemann Schorer wrote:
> HI :-)
> Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under
> Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs
> linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed
> linux-wlan-ng-doc. Alas, although I followed the instrutions

Hostap would be a better choice.
David

> in /usr/share/doc/linux-wlna-ng/README.Debian.gz, the build fails
> continually :-/ Log is attached.
> Although support for 2.6 kernel is 'experimental' there are some DEBs in
> the net, but they are for 2.6.6 or 2.6.4 - not 2.6.9 like i used on my
> laptop (installed from ftp.debian.org).
> bugs.d.o. has a bugreport for failing builds on 2.6 kernels, but it has not
> been solved for > 180 days.
> Is there somenone who can help me in this?
>
>
>  Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
>   Friedemann
>
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