rbrouwer
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Joined: 20 Oct 2004
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 Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:35 pm Post subject: madwifi complie/emerge problems |
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I am running gentoo-2.6.9 on a G4 powerbook. I am trying to install the madwifi drivers for a cardbus wireless networking card based on the Atheros 5001 chipset.
I have tried these techniques without success:
1. downloading the latest drivers and tyring to complie them leads to this error.
| Quote: | for i in ./ath_hal ath_rate/onoe ./net80211 ./ath; do \
(cd $i; make) || exit 1; \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r1/build SUBDIRS=/home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
LD [M] /home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal/ath_hal.o
ld: /home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal/hal.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal/hal.o: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
make[3]: *** [/home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal/ath_hal.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/stooge/madwifi/ath_hal'
make: *** [all] Error 1 |
2. Applying the advice in this thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=212447&highlight=madwifi+error leads to the following error.
| Quote: | >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824 to /
>>> md5 src_uri  madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824.tar.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work
* Applying linux-2.6.8.patch ... [ ok ]>>> Source unpacked.
for i in ./ath_hal ./net80211 ./ath; do \
(cd $i; make clean); \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal'
rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
rm -f ah_osdep.c opt_ah.h hal.o
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/net80211'
rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/net80211'
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath'
rm -f *~ *.o *.ko *.mod.c
rm -f .version .*.o.flags .*.o.d .*.o.cmd .*.ko.cmd
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath'
for i in ./ath_hal ./net80211 ./ath; do \
(cd $i; make) || exit 1; \
done
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal'
cp ./../hal/linux/ah_osdep.c ah_osdep.c
uudecode ./../hal/linux/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
cp ./../hal/linux/i386-elf.opt_ah.h opt_ah.h
make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/ah_osdep.o
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/../hal/ah.h:49,
from /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/ah_osdep.c:58:
/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/../hal/linux/ah_osdep.h:102:1: warning: "abs" redefined
In file included from include/linux/spinlock.h:13,
from include/linux/capability.h:45,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/ah_osdep.c:46:
include/linux/kernel.h:58:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
LD [M] /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/ath_hal.o
ld: /var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/hal.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 3)
/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/hal.o: could not read symbols: File in wrong format
make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal/ath_hal.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.9-gentoo-r1'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040824/work/ath_hal'
make: *** [all] Error 1 |
3. Applying the patches to the kernel so Atheros apperas in the kernel config leads to this when configuring the kernel.
| Quote: | CHK include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `arch/ppc/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
CHK include/asm-ppc/offsets.h
CHK include/linux/compile.h
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `drivers/net/wireless/_ath_hal/../hal/linux/.opt_ah.h', needed by `drivers/net/wireless/_ath_hal/opt_ah.h'. Stop.
make[3]: *** [drivers/net/wireless/_ath_hal] Error 2
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2 |
I have checked all the other things like ensuring that wireless and pcmcia/card bus support is enabled and that CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=n.
I'm kinda stumped. The problem seems to be that the driver file seems to be in the wrong format, but I've downloaded the source files from CVS, Atheros site and the card manufacturer and all cause the same issues.
Any advice much appreciated. |
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