On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Vince Barwinski
<vince.barwinski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I just downloaded compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2 and then after
> extracting it I tried to build it by executing the 'make' command. I
> made sure that I had the kernel headers and kernel source installed
> before running 'make'. I downloaded and installed them with 'apt-get'.
> My machine is an ACER Travelmate 230 Laptop with the Operating System
> being 'Simply Mepis Linux version 7.0' with kernel version
> '2.6.22-1-mepis-smp'. My USB wireless adapter is a 'Lemel LM-WLG600U
> 802.11g'. The old story: I am able to get it to work in Microsloth
> Windows XP with the driver CD, but the real problem of course is
> getting it to run in Linux.
>
> At first the build seemed to be running OK, but after a minute or so
> it failed with the following output:
>
> root@laptop:/home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old# make
> ./scripts/gen-compat-autoconf.sh config.mk > include/linux/compat_autoconf.h
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-1-mepis-smp/build
> M=/home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-1-mepis-smp'
> CC [M] /home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/misc/eeprom_93cx6.o
> CC [M] /home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/b44.o
> In file included from
> /home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/b44.c:34:
> /home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/b44.h:361:
> error: field 'napi' has incomplete type
> /home/vince/downloads/compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/b44.c: In
> function 'b44_poll':
seems b44 needs backporting of napi stuff. I have it b44 disabled if
you are not on > 2.6.22 but your kernel config is still respected so
it fails. You can simply remove it from being compile be removing the
line indicated below:
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e1cd54e..a1d1e59 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ ifeq ($(ONLY_CORE),)
obj-y += net/ieee80211/ \
drivers/ssb/ \
drivers/misc/ \
- drivers/net/ \
drivers/net/usb/ \
drivers/net/wireless/
endif
A patch to backport napi stuff to get this to compile correctly on
2.6.22 is welcomed though.
Luis
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