From: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
To: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
Cc: Bringfried Stecklum <stecklum@tls-tautenburg.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compile error compat-wireless
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 20:03:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A10A5C0.7090107@erley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ace41890905171600i3308f799n2a643e61fd954d4f@mail.gmail.com>
Hin-Tak Leung wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Bringfried Stecklum
> <stecklum@tls-tautenburg.de> wrote:
>> When trying to compile the latest compat-wireless package on an Ubuntu 8.10
>> 64bit system running linux kernel 2.6.27-12 I get the following error
>>
>> stecklum@extragalactix:~/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17$ make
>> ...
>
> You have missed some important info here. - most likely you don't have
> the kernel header package installed.
>
>> CC [M]
>> /home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211/tx.o
>> CC [M]
>> /home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211/key.o
>> /home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211/key.c: In
>> function ‘ieee80211_key_alloc’:
>> /home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211/key.c:326:
>> error: implicit declaration of function ‘get_unaligned_le32’
>> /home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211/key.c:328:
>> error: implicit declaration of function ‘get_unaligned_le16’
>> make[3]: ***
>> [/home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211/key.o]
>> Error 1
>> make[2]: ***
>> [/home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17/net/mac80211] Error 2
>> make[1]: *** [_module_/home/stecklum/System/src/compat-wireless-2009-05-17]
>> Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-12-mygeneric'
>> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bringfried
>
>
> Those two are defined in
> <kernel_source>/include/linux/unaligned/le_byteshift.h since about
> 2.6.26, I just checked.
>
> make sure /lib/modules/<kernel_ver>/source/ points to some kernel
> source tree (you probably need to install some package called
> kernel-dev or linux-dev).
>
I got this as well, fixed it by adding #include <asm/unaligned.h> to key.c
I have been running compat-wireless for months, so it's not a missing package
thing, I suspect it's an outdated headers thing. My system has 2.6.27 headers
right now.
Pat Erley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-17 11:29 compile error compat-wireless Bringfried Stecklum
2009-05-17 23:00 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-05-18 0:03 ` Pat Erley [this message]
2009-05-18 1:09 ` Hin-Tak Leung
2009-05-18 2:30 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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