[PlanetCCRMA] Wireless

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Wed Oct 26 17:50:01 2005


On Mon, 2001-02-12 at 02:47 +0800, Robert Jonkman wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've gotten my wireless card replaced on my Laptop and I'm ready to get 
> it working with the CCRMA. I did some searches and I got a bunch of 
> information, but so far I haven't had too much luck getting it to work. 
> I have an ipw2200. I've installed the firmware via RPM. THat worked 
> fine. I have not however been able to install the driver. 

I think that the driver is part of 0.21.rdt:
/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.ko

Did you try loading it? ("/sbin/modprobe ipw2200")
-- Fernando

> I'm not even 
> sure if I'm doing this right. When I try to make the the ipw2200 driver, 
> this is the output I get:
> make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 1.3e+08 s in the future
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/build 
> SUBDIRS=/home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0 
> MODVERDIR=/home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0 modules
> make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/build'
> make[1]: Warning: File 
> `/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/build/arch/i386/Makefile' has 
> modification time 1.4e+08 s in the future
> make[2]: Warning: File `scripts/Makefile.lib' has modification time 
> 1.4e+08 s in the future
> CC [M] /home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0/ipw2200.o
> In file included from /home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0/ipw2200.h:50,
> from /home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0/ipw2200.c:33:
> /home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0/ieee80211.h:636: error: redefinition 
> of ¡is_multicast_ether_addr¢
> include/linux/etherdevice.h:67: error: previous definition of 
> ¡is_multicast_ether_addr¢ was here
> make[2]: *** [/home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0/ipw2200.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [_module_/home/moefoe/Desktop/ipw2200-1.0.0] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma/build'
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
> 
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Am I trying to go about this is 
> the wrong way? Any help would be much appreciated.