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Make Error (wireless realtek driver)

My lspci:

Code:

02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01)

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)

ifconfig wlan0 up

Code:

wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

ifconfig -a

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 60:eb:69:d3:e3:1f  

          inet addr:192.168.1.116  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::62eb:69ff:fed3:e31f/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:12939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:10163 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:15155355 (14.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1329877 (1.2 MiB)

          Interrupt:43 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:600 (600.0 B)  TX bytes:600 (600.0 B)

I downloaded the driver at realtek website but I have trouble during the make command as root:

Code:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39/build M=/home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011 modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

  CC [M]  /home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.o

/home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.c: In function 'rtl_action_proc':

/home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.c:840:25: error: 'RX_FLAG_TSFT' undeclared (first use in this function)

/home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.c:840:25: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

make[2]: *** [/home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [_module_/home/john/Desktop/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm running on a custom kernel 2.6.39 slackware64 instead of the stock 2.6.37 kernel. I'm currently connected via ethernet cable and it works, but having trouble getting the wireless up. I installed wicd from slackware extras/ and it's currently using the wext driver. I also told it to use wlan0 as my wireless interface. My internet security is setup to use wpa-preshared key.

Any suggestions on how to fix the make error, or an alternative way to installing this driver?

Thank you.

I used src2pkg to build and install the Realtek RTL8191SEvB driver without any errors on -current a few weeks ago, maybe that would work..

Well, it looks like they renamed RX_FLAG_TSFT to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU in kernel 2.6.39.

From ChangeLog:

Quote:

commit 6ebacbb79d2d05978ba50a24d8cbe2a76ff2014c
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date: Wed Feb 23 15:06:08 2011 +0100

mac80211: rename RX_FLAG_TSFT

The flag isn't very descriptive -- the intention
is that the driver provides a TSF timestamp at
the beginning of the MPDU -- make that clearer
by renaming the flag to RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

You can run the following command before running make in order to compile the driver against kernel 2.6.39.

Code:

# sed -i 's|RX_FLAG_TSFT|RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU|g' base.c rtl8192{ce,se,de}/trx.c

or if you want a patch then:

Code:

diff -Naur rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/base.c rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.c

--- rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/base.c        2011-03-31 09:07:26.000000000 +0000

+++ rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.c        2011-05-30 07:21:00.333286252 +0000

@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@

                                                rx_status.freq = hw->conf.channel->center_freq;

                                                rx_status.band = hw->conf.channel->band;

                                                rx_status.flag |= RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED;

-                                                rx_status.flag |= RX_FLAG_TSFT;

+                                                rx_status.flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU;

                                                rx_status.rate_idx = 0;

                                                rx_status.signal = 50 + 10;

                                                memcpy(IEEE80211_SKB_RXCB(skb_delba), &rx_status,

diff -Naur rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/rtl8192ce/trx.c rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/trx.c

--- rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/rtl8192ce/trx.c        2011-03-31 09:07:26.000000000 +0000

+++ rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/trx.c        2011-05-30 07:21:00.346620451 +0000

@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@

        if (GET_RX_DESC_RXHT(pdesc))

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_HT;

 

-        rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_TSFT;

+        rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU;

 

        if (stats->decrypted)

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED;

diff -Naur rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/rtl8192de/trx.c rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/trx.c

--- rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/rtl8192de/trx.c        2011-03-31 09:07:26.000000000 +0000

+++ rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/trx.c        2011-05-30 07:21:00.379954068 +0000

@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_40MHZ;

        if (GET_RX_DESC_RXHT(pdesc))

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_HT;

-        rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_TSFT;

+        rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU;

        if (stats->decrypted)

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED;

        rx_status->rate_idx = _rtl92de_rate_mapping((bool)

diff -Naur rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/rtl8192se/trx.c rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/trx.c

--- rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011.orig/rtl8192se/trx.c        2011-03-31 09:07:26.000000000 +0000

+++ rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/trx.c        2011-05-30 07:21:00.369954117 +0000

@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@

        if (GET_RX_STATUS_DESC_RX_HT(pdesc))

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_HT;

 

-        rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_TSFT;

+        rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU;

 

        if (stats->decrypted)

                rx_status->flag |= RX_FLAG_DECRYPTED;

Hope that helps.

Quote:

Originally Posted by D1ver (Post 4370495)

I used src2pkg to build and install the Realtek RTL8191SEvB driver without any errors on -current a few weeks ago, maybe that would work..

Hmm, this is weird. I must've missed something while building my custom kernel 2.6.39.

Anyway, I got the package to make with src2pkg while on stock kernel 2.6.37.6-smp. I installed it with slackware's package tool. I also got the wireless internet up and running with wicd.

But I can't make the package with src2pkg while on custom kernel 2.6.39. I get an error:

Code:

ERROR! Compiling source code has failed.

This usually happens because of missing libraries, or badly written Makefiles or configure scripts.

@larryhaja
Thank you I will try that and report back.

I entered into the source folder and did:

Code:

sed -i 's|RX_FLAG_TSFT|RX_FLAG_MACTIME_MPDU|g' base.c rtl8192{ce,se,de}/trx.c

I ran make and got a little further, but ran into this:

Code:

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39/build M=/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011 modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/base.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rc.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/debug.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/regd.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/efuse.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/cam.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/ps.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/core.o

/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/core.c:1331:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/core.c:1345:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/pci.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtlwifi.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1 modules

  CC      /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtlwifi.mod.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtlwifi.ko

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39/build M=/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce modules

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/hw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/table.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/sw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/trx.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/led.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/fw.o

/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/fw.c: In function 'rtl92c_download_fw':

/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/fw.c:240:3: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int'

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/phy.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/rf.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/dm.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1 modules

  CC      /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.mod.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce/rtl8192ce.ko

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192ce'

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39/build M=/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se modules

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/hw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/table.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/sw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/trx.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/led.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/fw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/phy.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/rf.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/dm.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1 modules

  CC      /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.mod.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se/rtl8192se.ko

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192se'

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de'

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.39/build M=/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de modules

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/hw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/table.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/sw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/trx.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/led.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/fw.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/phy.o

/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/phy.c: In function 'rtl92d_phy_reset_iqk_result':

/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/phy.c:3002:2: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 2 has type 'long unsigned int'

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/rf.o

  CC [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/dm.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST 1 modules

  CC      /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.mod.o

  LD [M]  /home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de/rtl8192de.ko

make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.39'

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/john/src/rtl_92ce_92se_92de_linux_mac80211_0003.0401.2011/rtl8192de'

--
EDIT:

woops, nvm I guess I was being too careful or something. I forgot to do the make install part. I rebooted now and I am now connected. Thank you larryhaja.

That looks like a successful build.
Did you try "make install"?

edit: nvm, didn't see your edit.