Hi ,
I am new in this LinuxQuestons.org user community.
Short introduction: 68 yaers old - not keen to use winXP anymore
nor other Gill Baites
SW. Was in IT business since 1967. Know many operating systems.
I'm using Puppy Linux Version 4.3.1 on different PCs.
The one I have a bit of trouble is a Gateway Solo 2150 500Mhz 160MByte
40 GB HDD. The hick up is with WLAN.
The FritzWLAN USB stick connects me to internet with help of ndiswrapper
(enveloping AVM windows drivers). So far so good.
I connect to internet by going thru following sequence of Puppy WLAN wizard clicks:
connect / wireless LAN / wireless / load (a profile) / use this profile
/ Auto DHCP (got IP adrees) / save configuration (yes) / Done
The idea is to save and reuse the configuration next time I boot.
But that doesn't work. I have to go thru the above mentioned procedure
again, every time I (or my wife) boots.
The USB port on this machine (Gateawy Solo 2150) is a Version 1.0 hardware as compared to newer PCs USB 2.0 hardware/firmware.
I came across the AVM native drivers for the Fritz WLAN USB stick. Did learn a lot how to integrate the native driver in to the kernel but at the end I failed with error messages I can't solve.
I have read the FM from AVM which explains SuSe and other Linux distros
install procedures and followed really seriously those sequence of commands.
May be a younger person could give me a hand - I copy the err msgs where I got stuck:
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# ./install
make: Entering directory `/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src'
rm -f main.o driver.o tools.o lib.o buffers.o wext.o
rm -f fwlanusb.o fwlanusb.ko
make: Leaving directory `/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src'
make: Entering directory `/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.30.5/build SUBDIRS=/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30.5'
CC [M] /root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/main.o
CC [M] /root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.o
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c: In function 'net_init':
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c:317: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c: In function 'net_rx':
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c:405: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c: In function 'net_tx':
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c:436: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c: In function 'net_stats':
/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.c:458: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
make[2]: *** [/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src/driver.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.30.5'
make: *** [fwlanusb.o] Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src'
make: Entering directory `/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src'
cp: cannot stat `fwlanusb.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/root/FritzUSB_nativeDriver/nativeDriver/fritz/src'
#
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Thanks for any help you have for old dad
rgds
Axel
