Thanks so much for your quick response. I have now got it working :) John On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 17:46 +0200, Ian Schram wrote: > > Michael Buesch wrote: > > On Saturday 21 June 2008 11:54:57 John George Wright wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm very new to the linux operating systems so please treat me as a > >> child. > >> > >> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG built into my laptop and I am > >> trying to adapt the latest version of ubuntu to work with it. I followed > >> some online instructions and downloaded the mac80211-10.0.4 tar, > >> unpacked it and used this command: > >> > >> make SHELL=/bin/bash > >> > >> but received the following error: > >> > >> Building modified version in 'modified/' directory: > >> Copying modified/ from origin/...done > >> Applying patches and scripts from pending/. > >> + Applying: pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch > >> From 26e77a5fef845edcb5c27db52f413e7558db0e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > >> scripts/generate_modified: line 57: patch: command not found > >> -----patch failure output----- > >> > >> pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch failed. > >> Terminating. > >> If patch or script failed, check pre/ and post/ for current stage. > >> make: *** [modified] Error 1 > >> > >> Would you have any idea where I'm going wrong? > > > > apt-get install patch > > > > apt-getting patch will indeed solve that error, but will surely generate a different one a bit later in the > process. > > If you have the latest version of ubuntu, you probably don't want to mess with the packages > at intellinuxwireless.org. as I understand it, they are deprecated for everything except older > kernels, from before iwlwifi was merged. > > I think 8.04 ubuntu has a 2.6.24 kernel, so most likely it already has iwlwifi. You probaby want to > check that you have the firmware installed. in /lib/firmware. > > if you really want the latest driver the compat wireless project is probably the way to go. > http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
