[SM-Discuss] mac80211 compile error

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Wed Feb 20 15:51:40 EST 2008


On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Craig Dyke wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have been working to get my wireless connection working on my laptop.
>
> After some searching, both on our site and Google, I have found that the 
> iwlwifi spell is the
> way I should proceed to support my ipw3945 card.
>
> My issue is with the dependance on the mac80211 spell asthis will not compile 
> for me.
>
> My problem seems to come in after the patches have been applied to the kernel 
> files,
> specifically (at this point as it is as far as i have gotten) the ieee80211.c 
> file which is patched by
> this spell.
>
> Just wanted to know if anyone else has come across this issue as searching on 
> Google yielded
> no results.

This card is working fine on my box. I assume you are using the
2.6.24+ kernels. If so, the iwlwifi driver is built in to the kernel
and you should use that (plus the built-in mac80211) instead of the
external drivers.

mac80211 and iwlwifi are only needed for older than 2.6.24 kernels.
Note that you will still need the iwlwifi-*-ucode package for your
card.

-sandalle

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