Hi everyone!
So, that's is my problem:
I trying to make my Wireless USB Adapter work on Slack 13.37 and get the network WPA2-PSK. I already installed the windows driver by ndiswrapper and set the wpa_supplicant by:
Until here it's ok. I initiate my USB Adapter by modprobe ndiswrapper, and it's flashing normally.
But for active the wpa_supplicant that's getting hard. Has to use this command, hasn't?
But the madwifi isn't installed, and i'm not getting installe it, i think has something to do with kernel version, i'm new on distributions Linux so i don't know how. I tryed follow some tutorials of the forum but none work. I also tryed enter on my network by wicd, and it's showing all the networks availables, but when i try to connect at my network, stop on "Obtaining IP Address".

On Ubuntu it's just install the driver from Windows by ndiswrapper, and give a modprobe ndiswrapper that's OK.

So, any tip?

get the driver from http://linuxwireless.org/. Pick the latest one (choose bleeding edge download) and then you just need to extract, compile and install and don't forget to reboot after you finished. You must have kernel source installed. I did it on my laptop. It works.

The AR5523 driver?
On the page is showing this link: http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/.../ar5523/trunk/
So what i do next?
Sorry about that, how i said, i'm a new user.

Based on http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/...bian/changelog, the changelog last update was June 02, 2011. It's possible that they have a working driver by now. If you want the easy way, go to http://linuxwireless.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/ and download the latest release (see the date). After you download, extract it. Make sure you have kernel source installed. Go inside the directory and run this command as root.
reboot after you finish.

I made sure that the kernel headers, modules and source were installed, but during the "make" an error shows up, i copied just the part when the error appears:

So guys, any other tip?
I'm really thinking that the problem is it madwifi, and i'm not getting install it.

I had the same error as yours, and found the solution in:
comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/83960
(sorry this is my first post and then I cannot write URLs)

My kernel is indeed older than 3.2.
What I did (since the information on the link are not very talkative) is that I just copied into iwl-trans-pcie.c (just after the "includes") the definition of the function dma_zalloc_coherent:
static inline void *dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
{
void *ret = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, flag);
if (ret)
memset(ret, 0, size);
return ret;
}

And I was able to build successfully!

Now it's giving this error:
I'm not a real programmer so i don't know what's the error, but i did the upload of the file:
http://www.mediafire.com/?v7fw92bcoiov72c

If i made something wrong or stupid (what i think that happened), sorry

That was a good idea to post your file, and indeed there is an error.
Actually it seems you have integrated both corrections: mine, and the complete one as suggested by the link I gave.
So, just remove all the block from lines 85 to 108:
include/linux/compat-3.2.h | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compat-3.2.h b/include/linux/compat-3.2.h
index fb9ef68..a17c4ad 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat-3.2.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat-3.2.h
@@ -64,6 +64,15 @@ static inline char *hex_byte_pack(char *buf, u8 byte)
module_driver(__platform_driver, platform_driver_register, \
platform_driver_unregister)

+static inline void *dma_zalloc_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size,
+ dma_addr_t *dma_handle, gfp_t flag)
+{
+ void *ret = dma_alloc_coherent(dev, size, dma_handle, flag);
+ if (ret)
+ memset(ret, 0, size);
+ return ret;
+}
+
#endif /* (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,2,0)) */

#endif /* LINUX_3_2_COMPAT_H */
--

Then it should work.

Oh man, when the "make" passed the iwl-trans-pcie i was so happy... Then this:
The code of sdio.c:

This is "C" isn't? I'll have to learn. And how i put a scrollbar on the quote?
Anyway, this is the entire code:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4yex4swu27d3f1f

It seems that you don't have Linux headers installed.
(to answer your question, yes, this is C code)
(but for your 2nd question about the scrollbar, I have no idea. I am a newbie, like you! :-) )
Linux headers are files were all the references to Linux functions are declared.

In order to do this (I just did it yesterday too when installing my compat-wireless package) you have to run:
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
as specified by the linuxwireless page (search for "headers" in: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download)

I think it should help (at least to go further).

bash: /lib/modules/2.6.37.6-smp/build: is a directory
In the folder modules has the folder 2.6.37.6 and 2.6.37.6-smp. My kernel version is 2.6.37.6-smp.
I already installed the kernel-headers and i did again just for confirm:
+==============================================================================
| Skipping package kernel-headers-2.6.37.6_smp-x86-2 (already installed)
+=============================

OK.
Then I don't know.
My kernel is 3.0.0-14-generic and I didn't get this issue.
When looking for pm_runtime_enabled function in Google, I saw that it is defined in include/linux/pm_runtime.h.
Just need to find where it is (or should be) and why you don't have it.

Somebody else's help would be good now... because I am not an expert at all.

Ok, i'm really thankful for your help.
I found a guy in a Russian forum that has the exacly problem, i don't if find this forum too. No one solved the problem, the last post was yesterday.

So, i research a little and find a provisional solution...
I added to the code on /include/linux/compat-2.6.37.h or something like that.

But another error shows up... I'm almost given up. But, here goes:

So guys, any type?²