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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:06:39
Message-Id: 20050928140018.GB11692@princeton.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13 by John Green
1 On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:03:18AM +0000, John Green wrote:
2 > In detail, when
3 >
4 > /usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6
5 >
6 > everything works OK.
7 >
8 > But when
9 >
10 > /usr/src/linux => /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2
11 >
12 > there are errors beginning like this.
13 >
14 > ---------------------
15 >
16 > >>> Source unpacked.
17 >
18 > * You may safely ignore any errors from compilation that contain
19 > * warnings about undefined references to the ieee80211 subsystem.
20 > *
21 > * Preparing ipw2100 module
22 > mkdir -p
23 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/tmp/.tmp_versions
24 > cp /usr/include/*.mod
25 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/tmp/.tmp_versions
26 > cp: cannot stat `/usr/include/*.mod': No such file or directory
27 > make: [modules] Error 1 (ignored)
28 > make -C /usr/src/linux
29 > M=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2
30 > MODVERDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/w
31 > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13.2'
32 > CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.o
33 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c: In
34 > function `ipw2100_set_scan_options':
35 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c:1584:
36 > error: structure has no member named `sec'
37 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c:1584:
38 > error: structure has no member named `sec'
39 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c: In
40 > function `ipw2100_configure_security':
41 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c:5103:
42 > error: structure has no member named `sec'
43 > /var/tmp/portage/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1/work/ipw2100-1.1.2/ipw2100.c:5108:
44 > error: structure has no member named `sec'
45 >
46
47 hum, have you tried asking about on ipw2100.sourceforge.net?
48 There's an IRC channel on freenode and they also have their own bug
49 database you can search through. Maybe you will find something there?
50
51
52 > ------------------
53 >
54 > BTW, I am totally confused about in-kernel versus out-of-kernel software
55 > for Intel wireless
56 > and about the hardware/driver nomenclature. Here is the (possibly)
57 > relevant part of
58 > my kernel .config file.
59 >
60
61 if I remember correctly, the ipw2?00 ebuilds checks for kernel options
62 before emerging, so if it got to the compile phase it shouldn't be a
63 problem with your kernel setup. Or at least a known problem.
64
65 W
66
67 --
68 Richard M. Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Donald E. Knuth engage in a
69 discussion on whose impact on the computerized world was the
70 greatest.
71
72 Stallman: "God told me I have programmed the best editor in the
73 world!"
74 Torvalds: "Well, God told *me* that I have programmed the best
75 operating system in the world!"
76 Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
77 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 47 days, 17:00
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13 John Green <jg012b8403_2@×××××××××××××.uk>