Hi all, Am having a problem installing my intel wireless card in my debian distro. I have downloaded the firmware when trying to install this is the error i get

mike@mikey:/root/ipw2200-1.1.0$ sudo make
Password:

ERROR: ieee80211.h not found in '/lib/modules/2.6.18-4-686/include'.

You need to install the ieee80211 subsystem from http://ieee80211.sf.net
and point this build to the location where you installed those sources, eg.:

% make IEEE80211_INC=/usr/src/ieee80211/

will look for ieee80211.h in /usr/src/ieee80211/net/

make: *** [check_inc] Error 1
mike@mikey:/root/ipw2200-1.1.0$

Please help

download the file as per the link. either put it in the directory it looks for it in, or add the line as it shows to point to where you have installed it.

... i think...

First of all, if you are using Debian Etch, you do not need to compile and install both ieee802.11 or ipw2200 driver as they are included with the kernel. All you need is the firmware version 3 from here. The file is a .gz file, I gunzipped it and it only produced one file, because it wouldn't work, I eventually un-tared it and got four files, three of them with .fw extension, copy those three or four files to /lib/firmware (not the folder they are in), and re-boot. That's all you need to do, you might want to try this command to unpack it properly the first time instead of fighting like I did:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ipw2200

Thanx it worked. Kudos now i can smile