Re: [zd1211-devs] Connection dropped after few secs

[Ulrich K. <ku...@de...>]

On 06-09-03 17:51 Marko Huuhilo wrote:

> Ulrich Kunitz wrote:
> >On 06-09-03 14:51 Marko Huuhilo wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Sorry for the lag, I tried to get the zd1211rw installed, but I failed. 
> >>So I am still using the vendor driver.
> >>    
> >
> >I cannot help with the vendor driver. Why did you fail to install
> >the zd1211rw?
> >  
> I dl'ed zd1211rw dated 2006-09-02 and zd1211 firmware 2006-09-02 and 
> softmac source.
> 
> The firmware I got installed, softmac is installed and listed with 
> lsmod, but when I run make in the driver directory, I get 
> "zd_netdev.c:208: error: 'ieee80211softmac_wx_set_wap undeclared here 
> (not in a function)" and also same error from the following lines, with 
> different variables, all starting with ieee80211softmac_wx". I tried a 
> snapshot from 2006-08-30 also. (I am not an expert with Linux, so I 
> might have done a newbie error.)
> 
> Kernel 2.6.18 isn't available as a Debian package, I would like to stick 
> with my current kernel.
> 
>    -M.

Marko,

thank you for the information. It appears that you have an older
kernel with a softmac version that doesn't support WAP related
functions. You will need to compile a newer kernel version to
support the driver. Here is a link, which explains the process for
Debian, if you want to try it.

http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

The driver has been included in Linus' current kernel. So the
driver will be included in new releases of the distributions and
this shouldn't be an issue any more.

Regards,

Uli







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Uli Kunitz