Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

[tom arnall <kloro@cox.net>]

> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux
> driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware
> revision of your particular card. For your card there
> appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported
> to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this
> link to help you figure out which revision you have:
> http://support.dlink.com/products/DWLG650.asp
>
> If you are lucky and have the C1 revision, use the
> MadWiFi Linux driver. If not, try the Prism or Madwifi
> drivers and if you can't get them to work, fall back
> to the ndiswrapper approach -- but if at all possible
> use a native Linux driver.
>
> Once you've figured out if you have the C1 revision or
> not, post back here if you need help with getting the
> driver included in the kernel and other setup, or if
> you need help with ndiswrapper.
>
> HTH
>
> Mark


i did some more research and it turns out that the midwifi driver will work
with the D-link G650-B4. but when i tried compiling the driver (module?) i
got error messages similar to those which i got trying to compile the host ap
driver, i.e.:

In file included from include/asm/thread_info.h:16,
                 from include/linux/thread_info.h:21,
                 from include/linux/spinlock.h:12,
                 from include/linux/capability.h:45,
                 from include/linux/sched.h:7,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from /home/kloro/linux/madwifi-ng/ath_hal/ah_osdep.c:46:
include/asm/processor.h:87: error: array type has incomplete element type
make[3]: *** [/home/kloro/linux/madwifi-ng/ath_hal/ah_osdep.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/kloro/linux/madwifi-ng/ath_hal] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kloro/linux/madwifi-ng/ath_hal'
make: *** [modules] Error 1



thanks,

tom arnall
north spit, ca