building mac80211

building mac80211

[John George Wright]

Hi,

I'm very new to the linux operating systems so please treat me as a
child.

I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG built into my laptop and I am
trying to adapt the latest version of ubuntu to work with it. I followed
some online instructions and downloaded the mac80211-10.0.4 tar,
unpacked it and used this command:

make SHELL=/bin/bash

but received the following error:

Building modified version in 'modified/' directory:
Copying modified/ from origin/...done
Applying patches and scripts from pending/.
 + Applying: pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch
	From 26e77a5fef845edcb5c27db52f413e7558db0e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
scripts/generate_modified: line 57: patch: command not found
-----patch failure output-----

pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch failed.
Terminating.
If patch or script failed, check pre/ and post/ for current stage.
make: *** [modified] Error 1

Would you have any idea where I'm going wrong?

Thanks,
John

Re: building mac80211

[Michael Buesch]

On Saturday 21 June 2008 11:54:57 John George Wright wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm very new to the linux operating systems so please treat me as a
> child.
> 
> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG built into my laptop and I am
> trying to adapt the latest version of ubuntu to work with it. I followed
> some online instructions and downloaded the mac80211-10.0.4 tar,
> unpacked it and used this command:
> 
> make SHELL=/bin/bash
> 
> but received the following error:
> 
> Building modified version in 'modified/' directory:
> Copying modified/ from origin/...done
> Applying patches and scripts from pending/.
>  + Applying: pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch
> 	From 26e77a5fef845edcb5c27db52f413e7558db0e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> scripts/generate_modified: line 57: patch: command not found
> -----patch failure output-----
> 
> pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch failed.
> Terminating.
> If patch or script failed, check pre/ and post/ for current stage.
> make: *** [modified] Error 1
> 
> Would you have any idea where I'm going wrong?

apt-get install patch

-- 
Greetings Michael.

Re: building mac80211

[Ian Schram]

Michael Buesch wrote:
> On Saturday 21 June 2008 11:54:57 John George Wright wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm very new to the linux operating systems so please treat me as a
>> child.
>>
>> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG built into my laptop and I am
>> trying to adapt the latest version of ubuntu to work with it. I followed
>> some online instructions and downloaded the mac80211-10.0.4 tar,
>> unpacked it and used this command:
>>
>> make SHELL=/bin/bash
>>
>> but received the following error:
>>
>> Building modified version in 'modified/' directory:
>> Copying modified/ from origin/...done
>> Applying patches and scripts from pending/.
>>  + Applying: pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch
>> 	From 26e77a5fef845edcb5c27db52f413e7558db0e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> scripts/generate_modified: line 57: patch: command not found
>> -----patch failure output-----
>>
>> pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch failed.
>> Terminating.
>> If patch or script failed, check pre/ and post/ for current stage.
>> make: *** [modified] Error 1
>>
>> Would you have any idea where I'm going wrong?
> 
> apt-get install patch
> 

apt-getting patch will indeed solve that error, but will surely generate a different one a bit later in the
process.

If you have the latest version of ubuntu, you probably don't want to mess with the packages
at intellinuxwireless.org. as I understand it, they are deprecated for everything except older
kernels, from before iwlwifi was merged.

I think 8.04 ubuntu has a 2.6.24 kernel, so most likely it already has iwlwifi. You probaby want to
check that you have the firmware installed. in /lib/firmware.

if you really want the latest driver the compat wireless project is probably the way to go.
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/

Re: building mac80211

[John George Wright]

Thanks so much for your quick response. I have now got it working :)

John

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 17:46 +0200, Ian Schram wrote:
> 
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Saturday 21 June 2008 11:54:57 John George Wright wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm very new to the linux operating systems so please treat me as a
> >> child.
> >>
> >> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG built into my laptop and I am
> >> trying to adapt the latest version of ubuntu to work with it. I followed
> >> some online instructions and downloaded the mac80211-10.0.4 tar,
> >> unpacked it and used this command:
> >>
> >> make SHELL=/bin/bash
> >>
> >> but received the following error:
> >>
> >> Building modified version in 'modified/' directory:
> >> Copying modified/ from origin/...done
> >> Applying patches and scripts from pending/.
> >>  + Applying: pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch
> >> 	From 26e77a5fef845edcb5c27db52f413e7558db0e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> scripts/generate_modified: line 57: patch: command not found
> >> -----patch failure output-----
> >>
> >> pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch failed.
> >> Terminating.
> >> If patch or script failed, check pre/ and post/ for current stage.
> >> make: *** [modified] Error 1
> >>
> >> Would you have any idea where I'm going wrong?
> > 
> > apt-get install patch
> > 
> 
> apt-getting patch will indeed solve that error, but will surely generate a different one a bit later in the
> process.
> 
> If you have the latest version of ubuntu, you probably don't want to mess with the packages
> at intellinuxwireless.org. as I understand it, they are deprecated for everything except older
> kernels, from before iwlwifi was merged.
> 
> I think 8.04 ubuntu has a 2.6.24 kernel, so most likely it already has iwlwifi. You probaby want to
> check that you have the firmware installed. in /lib/firmware.
> 
> if you really want the latest driver the compat wireless project is probably the way to go.
> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/