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Willie Wong wrote: |
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>On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +0000, John Green wrote: |
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>>In detail, when |
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>>/usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6 |
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>>everything works OK. |
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>>But when |
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>>/usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2 |
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>>there are errors beginning like this. |
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>>>>>Source unpacked. |
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>> * You may safely ignore any errors from compilation that contain |
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>> * warnings about undefined references to the ieee80211 subsystem. |
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>> * Preparing ipw2100 module |
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>>mkdir -p |
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>>/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/tmp/.tmp_versions |
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>>cp /usr/include/*.mod |
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>>/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/tmp/.tmp_versions |
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>>cp: cannot stat `/usr/include/*.mod': No such file or directory |
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>>make: [modules] Error 1 (ignored) |
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>>make -C /usr/src/linux |
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>>M=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2 |
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>>MODVERDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/w |
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>>make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2' |
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>> CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.o |
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>>/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c: In |
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>>function `ipw2100_set_scan_options': |
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>>/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c:1584: |
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<snip> |
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>hum, have you tried asking about on ipw2100.sourceforge.net? |
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>There's an IRC channel on freenode and they also have their own bug |
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>database you can search through. Maybe you will find something there? |
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Thanks for the tip. Their bug database did not help, so it was IRC or |
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nothing. |
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I'd been on IRC only once before, and that was two years ago... so this time |
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I made notes on how to do it. Anyway, someone on freenode/#ipw2100 thought |
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the problem might be with ieee80211. A detailed look at my log file for |
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rebuilding ieee80211 |
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under 2.6.13.2 showed that the ebuild tried to delete kernel file |
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include/net/ieee80211.h, |
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but failed with insufficient privilege, even though emerge was running |
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as root. I deleted |
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the kernel header file by hand and the ebuild for ipw2100 then ran |
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successfully. |
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Kernel 2.6.12.6 does not contain the file include/net/ieee80211.h, so the |
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compilation error never happened with that kernel. |
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Unfortunately, wireless would still not work under 2.6.13.2, despite |
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many rebuilds |
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in different orders and many reboots. I guess I'll stick with kernel |
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2.6.12.6 for now. |
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If I ever do get wireless working under 2.6.13 or higher, I'll try to |
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add a note to the |
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Gentoo Wiki for ipw2100. (More learning and note-taking!) |
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I use a script to detect errors in ebuild log files because the logs are |
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usually too long to read. |
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The script clearly needs an extra clause to highlight the phrase |
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'insufficient privilege'. |
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John Green |
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