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? 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. > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
