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