Slackware and linux-wlan-ng wireless
To lead off, I apologize if I am in the wrong forum, but hopefully someone here can help me.
Several weeks ago I started on the endeavor of installing slackware Linux on an old IBM ThinkPad 380ED that I had sitting around. This is my second bout with Linux, the first one back in the late 90's where i installed mandrake as a dual boot on my main machine. I guess i never really go into it the, so I just stopped using it and eventually re-claimed the Linux partition for windows use. Anyway, I know laptops are not great fodder for newbie's but I kicked ahead anyway. So far I have most everything working. Slackware is up and running, as is X, and the PCMCIA slots as well. More to the point, I just so happen to have an old Intel Anypoint II wireless PCMCIA card for this laptop, and decided I wanted to try and install it as well. Some quick research online reveled that the Anypoint wireless cards were not notoriously compatible with linux, but I did find references to them working under the linux-wlan-ng drivers ( www . linux-wlan . com ). So anyway, I downloaded the source, and started to try and compile and install it. After much trial and tribulation I managed to successfully get "make config" and "make all" to complete, however when I attempt to run "make install", it drops me out with the following errors: Code:
Make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1pre23/src/p80211' For reference, this is Slackware 7.1 (don’t ask), using the 2.2.16 kernel, pcmcia-cs-3.1.16, and linux-wlan-ng0.2.1pre23 (also tried with pre22 and pre21). I plan on at least updating the kernel soon, but I would like to get the wireless setup first (yes, I know ill have to re-compile it all, but that’s all part of the plan. Stumble around like a blind fool and mess things up, THEN update and start over clean and fresh). If no one here has any advice I will probably post this to the Linux-wlan-ng mailing list, but I don’t know if this is a general or specific problem... Thanks |
You probably have a better chance in the wireless networking forum. It's under the networking forum.
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Will do, Thanks!
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