Re: [Fwd: dh_gencontrol error]
I hit the send key before finishing the message.
On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 13:48 +0800, Tom Ashley wrote:
> 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;
The specific section is titled Intel ipw2200 wireless card.
> >
> > > 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.
> >
Thanks much. I'll try it.
> > Bob
> >
> >
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