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Old 06-05-2008   #1 (permalink)
nofilbarlas
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Cannot make wireless work in Debian?

HI guys..this is the first time I joined a forum but I am really into learning linux so I thought I can get some knowledge from all the experts out there. I just installed Debian and I am really having a tough time with the wireless setup. I have an ASUS R1E laptop. I went to the following website WiFi - Debian Wiki to download the driver for the wireless. I also installed the wireless-tools but I dont know whats going on. I also went to the site Intel® Wireless WiFi Link drivers for Linux* downloaded the drivers and did everything and I cant get it to work. I did modprobe mac80211 and when I try to do :
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/Makefile
and I dont find anything. I did
uname -r

and it returns "2.6.18-6-amd64"

% wget \
http://intellinuxwireless.org/mac802...211-10.0.4.tgz
% tar xvf mac80211-10.0.4.tgz
mac80211-10.0.4/origin/GIT
mac80211-10.0.4/origin/net/mac80211/Makefile
...
% cd mac80211-10.0.4

everything is fine until I do
make

I get the following error comes when I run make:
Building modified version in 'modified/' directory:
Copying modified/ from origin/...done
scripts/generate_modified: line 41: rsync: command not found
Applying patches and scripts from pending/.
scripts/generate_modified: line 87: rsync: command not found
+ Applying: pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch
From 26e77a5fef845edcb5c27db52f413e7558db0e20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
patch: **** Can't change to directory post/ : No such file or directory
-----patch failure output-----

pending/0001-mac80211-Add-basic-IEEE-802.11n-support.patch failed. Terminating.
If patch or script failed, check pre/ and post/ for current stage.
make: *** [modified] Error 1

Please can anyone help. I am totally lost and have googled "debian wireless" and almost tried everything that people have said and I always get stuck somewhere or the other. thanks.
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Hi,

"scripts/generate_modified: line 41: rsync: command not found"

apt-get install rsync

Hopefully that will get you a step closer...
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Actually someone suggested that in one of the other forums and I tried it too but still no luck. thanks for your help though. Still trying to figure it out.
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