Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]
Thanks for the response Bob.
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 23:30 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom Ashley wrote:
> > I'm a new Debian user with limited Linux command line experience. I've
> > used Mandrake/Mandriva for the past 5 years or so but have depended
> > primarily on GUI tools.
>
> Hmm... I see a pattern. Did that experience condition you to always
> recompile from source?
This is my first attempt at recompiling from source. I tried it since
all other efforts at establishing a WIFI connection have failed. BTW, I
still have Windows XP and Mandriva 2007 on the laptop and have to rely
on them for wireless connections when traveling.
> In this case I think if you simply use the
> Debian supplied driver that you will be fine. Often people don't
> trust the distro files and feel that they need to compile their own
> and that is fine. But since the distro files are precompiled and do
> work if your goal is simply a working driver then stop there. If you
> want to tinker with the driver then by all means feel free to tinker.
>
> > I'm attempting to configure my laptop (custom build on ASUS) for WIFI
> > using Debian Etch. The ethernet card is Intel Pro/Wireless 2200BG.
>
> Mine too.
>
> > The Wiki-Debian How-To Manual provides instructions, but I'm having
> > problems.
>
> To what page are you referring? I looked briefly on the Debian wiki
> (http://wiki.debian.org/) but could not find any relevant pages. The
> only thing I could locate there was the NDIS wrappers and that is not
> what you want.
http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-c1c659c5a4ea5e35ff427f456f79cdcdb8c6772b;
>
> > When attempting to build ieee80211, the following error
> > message appears:
> >
> > dh_gencontrol: command returned error code 65280
make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/ieee80211'
> > make: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
> >
> > I'd appreciate any help you can offer. The full text output from my
> > attempt appears at the end of this message.
>
> Are you trying to get the ipw2200bg driver working or are you trying
> to do something else?
>
> To get the ipw2200 module working the easiest thing to do is to use
> the Debian supplied kernel driver with the non-free firmware blobs.
>
> Visit this page:
>
> http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/firmware.php
>
> Read the license agreement and understand why it is not shipped with
> Debian. Download the firmware v3.0 bundle of files (which will be
> called ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz). Untar that and copy all three of the
> firmware files to /lib/firmware.
>
> /lib/firmware/ipw2200-bss.fw
> /lib/firmware/ipw2200-ibss.fw
> /lib/firmware/ipw2200-sniffer.fw
>
> That should be all that you need. You should not need to recompile
> any drivers. Since there is no need to compile a new driver this
> should avoid the problem you are having at trying to do so.
>
> Bob
>
>
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