Hi, I wanted to thank you for trying to help me, and to let you know that I have given up compiling compat-wireless-old and have moved on to kernel 2.6.28, with which my wifi device works perfectly. It turns out that the amount of work I had to do to get my wifi on was a lot more that to fix my device issues with the latest kernel, so it simply wasn't worth it anymore. I was especially appalled to learn that the iwl drivers were broken in compat-wireless-old after 09/09/2008 and it has remained this way. rodrigo. On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Rodrigo Fresneda <fresneda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks for your answer. Now, what exactly am I supposed to do? Take a >> look at the IWL section in config.mk: > > That's a bit wrong... how about try changing the 4965 "y" to "m"? > >> >> CONFIG_IWL3945=m >> CONFIG_IWL3945_DEBUG=n >> CONFIG_IWL3945_LEDS=y >> # CONFIG_IWL3945_RFKILL=y >> CONFIG_IWL3945_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y >> CONFIG_IWL4965=y >> CONFIG_IWL5000=y >> CONFIG_IWLAGN=m >> CONFIG_IWLAGN_LEDS=y >> CONFIG_IWLAGN_SPECTRUM_MEASUREMENT=y >> CONFIG_IWLCORE=m >> CONFIG_IWLWIFI=m >> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG=n >> CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEDS=y >> >> It seems CONFIG_IWL4965 is selected by default. Do you think there is >> a better selection than the default one? An unrelated question, is >> there a way to instruct make to build only the modules I want, i.e., >> iwlagn? > > yes and no... "y" sometimes means it assumes *your current kernel* has > it built-in (i.e. = "ignore this option"). > A shame you aren't using the latest compat-wireless. > > Well, if you want to skip some modules, you just put comment it out, > e.g. edit drivers/net/wireless/Makefile and put a "#" before any line > that doesn't contain obj-$(CONFIG_IWL* > >> >> thanks again, >> rodrigo. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Rodrigo Fresneda <fresneda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> WARNING: "iwl4965_agn_cfg" >>>> [/home/fresneda/compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko] >>>> undefined! >>>> >>>> The module is built, but it cannot be inserted: >>>> >>>> FATAL: Error inserting iwlagn >>>> (/lib/modules/2.6.26-1-amd64/updates/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwlagn.ko): >>>> Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see >>>> dmesg) >>>> >>>> And the output of dmesg: >>>> >>>> iwlagn: Unknown symbol iwl4965_agn_cfg >>> >>> >>> symbol iwl4965_agn_cfg is enabled if you select "Intel Wireless WiFi >>> 4965AGN" support also. >>> config IWL4965 . Try selecting that when you build compat-wireless.old >>> . (seems that in some older version of >>> conpat-wireless, the 5000 code depends on the 4965 code). >>> >>> Also, make sure that you do "depmod -a" >>> >> > -- 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
