Questions: about repos & wifi

[flipjargendy]

i'm trying to get my wifi card to work (atheros). i've added the info i needed to in /etc/network/interfaces. i tried to install madwifi-tools with apt-get but was unsuccesful because apt says it can't find the package.

[antidrugue]

Perhaps this could help you :
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi

[jonantice]

The madwifi packages are only available in the testing and unstable repos. If you want apt to take care of your madwifi upgrades etc you'll have to upgrade to testing or stable or just wait 'till etch is released as stable. The other thing you could try is downloading the deb package from packages.debian.org and install it with dpkg, but you might have dependency problems, mainly with libc6.

[jonantice]

Found this for you until etch is released as stable:
add this to /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public sarge
OR
Download the deb file manualy from http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public/pool-sarge/madwifi/
This is an old version that will work with debian sarge.

[antidrugue]

You can use

apt-get --build source

to rebuild the "madwifi" packages for Debian Sarge.

Installation of madwifi-tools with Debian Sarge or Ubuntu

This is currently impossible, due to the unavailability of the debhelper package version required to build the package

The madwifi-tools packages are built against the libc6 for Debian unstable, and do not install if you are running Sarge or Ubuntu. Simply rebuild the packages against Debian Sarge/Ubuntu libraries, which satisfy the dependencies. (requires fakeroot)

su
apt-get build-dep madwifi-tools
apt-get install fakeroot
exit
fakeroot apt-get --build source madwifi-tools

The .debs created can be installed using dpkg -i. The madwifi-doc, madwifi-source and madwifi-tools binaries are created

then follow the rest of the instructions at http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi to install those newly created packages.

[flipjargendy]

This is what happen after following the link to the madwifi howto. Any ideas?

Hit http://www.backports.org sarge-backports/non-free Release
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libstring-koremutake-perl (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
obnoxium:/home/jason# apt-get build-dep madwifi-tools
Reading Package Lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing libstring-koremutake-perl (NewFileVer1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.kernel.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
obnoxium:/home/jason# apt-get -- build-source
E: Invalid operation build-source

[antidrugue]

Did you try the method I mentionned in my post ? You don't need to download anything from Debian-backports. Also, make sure you read the how-to carefully. Some of the commands you are using with apt-get simply don't exist.

[flipjargendy]

Yeah, i tried what you said, when that didn't work i tried to just go by the howto but that didn't work either. It's like the repos aren't setup right. i don't know whats wrong with them though.