3rd party Madwifi packages for Debian Sarge won't build
I'm trying to install madwifi to get my dwl-g510 wifi card working.
Atheros chipset.
I can't find madwifi packages when searching the stable branch, so I
downloaded the file madwifi-source_20041023-1_all.deb from
http://madwifi.sf.net
This package won't install because of dependency problems (see below)
Is there a way to resolve this correctly, or are there other packages
that won't error out when installing?
Please advise. Thanks.
falcon:/home/ed# dpkg -i madwifi-source_20041023-1_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package madwifi-source.
(Reading database ... 94866 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking madwifi-source (from madwifi-source_20041023-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of madwifi-source:
madwifi-source depends on debhelper (>> 3.0.0); however:
Package debhelper is not installed.
dpkg: error processing madwifi-source (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
madwifi-source
falcon:/home/ed# apt-get install debhelper
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debhelper: Depends: html2text but it is not going to be installed
Depends: debconf-utils (>= 1.1.1) but it is not going to
be installed
Depends: po-debconf but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
falcon:/home/ed# apt-get install madwifi-source
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
madwifi-source is already the newest version.
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
madwifi-source: Depends: debhelper (> 3.0.0) but it is not going to
be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
Ed
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