Help needed!

[bnei]

I've been trying for a long time to find a solution to my problem but haven't found it for debian etch.

I'm trying to get my wlan to work and that by using ndiswrapper. Downloading and extracting works as it should however when a move in to the extracted directory and goes "make" I get this:

Hajo:/home/hajo/Desktop/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.28# make
make -C driver
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hajo/Desktop/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.17-2-686/build;
  give the path to kernel build directory with
  KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hajo/Desktop/Downloads/ndiswrapper-1.28/driver'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm suppose to download the src.rpm file for my kernel I guess but where can I find this file and do I have to install it or just temporarly keep it during the installation or what do I do? I want to get my wireless going soon, thank you all for your efforts!

[Zelmo]

Source RPMs aren't really for Debian systems. In your case, you don't even need the full kernel source. All you need is the linux-headers package that matches your kernel.

If you don't know your kernel version, you can check it by typing uname -r in a console. Then in Synaptic (or another package manager of your choice), search for linux-headers and pick the one with the same version of your kernel. Once that's installed, you should be able to build kernel modules like ndiswrapper.

[bnei]

Source RPMs aren't really for Debian systems. In your case, you don't even need the full kernel source. All you need is the linux-headers package that matches your kernel.

If you don't know your kernel version, you can check it by typing uname -r in a console. Then in Synaptic (or another package manager of your choice), search for linux-headers and pick the one with the same version of your kernel. Once that's installed, you should be able to build kernel modules like ndiswrapper.

Thank you.. that worked fine!

Now I have a new problem..

I'm going through the tutorial
http://www.linuxforums.org/network/w...and_linux.html

and everything seems to work fine, however I still don't have a wlanX, only eth0 and eth1.

edit: could this be because i'm using the wrong driver?
Can I use the driver that I would have used in windows if I use ndiswrapper?

[eraker]

As far as I know, eth0 and eth1 refer to your ethernet cards, wired and wireless. If you know which is wireless (for instance, on my computer, eth0 refers to the wireless interface), you should be able to substitute that one (eth0 or eth1) for wlanX in the commands given in that tutorial.

Here's a debian tutorial describing how to do pretty much the same stuff:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/401

If nothing works, I would substitute eth0 for wlan0. Also, what kind of security do you have on the wirless router you are trying to access? What does your /etc/network/interfaces file look like?

[iwanabeguru]

Hi
after you loaded the ndiswrapper modul , run the command dmesg and post the output to here

if your card has atheros chipset the better choice is madwifi driver

[bnei]

output of dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.17-2-686 (Debian 2.6.17-9)

!!!
Had to cut ut some info here because the post became to long :( I don't think that I removed anything important
!!!

NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1162600217.612:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered (default)
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:1c.0:pcie03]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
NET: Registered protocol family 8
NET: Registered protocol family 20
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
 LID PBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 USB2 USB4 USB3 MODM PCIE  NIC
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3] C4[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THM] (55 C)
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.1[B] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[201]  MMIO=[dfcfe800-dfcfefff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[4/4]
tg3.c:v3.59.1 (August 25, 2006)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95751) rev 4001 PHY(5750)] (PCI Express) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:14:22:fb:f5:a7
eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[1] MIirq[1] ASF[0] Split[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
ICH6: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
ICH6: chipset revision 3
ICH6: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xbfa0-0xbfa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
hda: TOSHIBA MK6006GAH, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 169, io base 0x0000bf80
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hda: max request size: 512KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB), CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 >
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 209, io base 0x0000bf60
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 201, io base 0x0000bf40
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[364fc00035b87830]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 177, io base 0x0000bf20
usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 169, io mem 0xffa80800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Attempting manual resume
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 915GM Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.11
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.2[C] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xdfcfe700 irq 209 DMA
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Bluetooth: HCI USB driver ver 2.9
usbcore: registered new driver hci_usb
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:01.0 [1028:01a3]
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cb8, PCI irq 177
Socket status: 30000006
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xdfc00000 - 0xdfcfffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x60000000 - 0x61ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:02:03.0 disabled
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.2 to 64
hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 55366 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1e.3[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.3 to 64
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 1.01, 16:56:33 Sep 13 2006
MC'97 1 converters and GPIO not ready (0xff00)
Adding 144512k swap on /dev/hda6.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:144512k
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
SCSI subsystem initialized
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
device-mapper: 4.6.0-ioctl (2006-02-17) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
apm: BIOS not found.
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
[drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 0
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ndiswrapper version 1.23 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)

Running these tutorials has given me a eth1 however, it doesn't seem to do anything usefull to me.

Any ideas from the dmesg output?

[Zelmo]

Running iwconfig in the console (as root) will tell you which network interfaces will work with wireless extensions, and hence are recognized as wireless network interfaces.

[bnei]

Ok, it's not looking good so far.

eth0 and eth1 is wired connections so something is wrong, have found that I can do this with the ipw2200 driver but I need to get "make menuconfig" to work first.

Will try this some other day, it's late here in Sweden so godnight and thank you for your help. I'm sure we will meet again

[iwanabeguru]

is your kernel has a wireless support?

in menuconfig
network -> generic ieee 802.11 networking stack
and
device drivers -> network devices support -> wireless lan (non hamradio) ->
wireless lan drivers (non hamradio ) & wireless extensions

EDIT:
i cheked your dmesg output and saw you have wireless support

but i found something else

ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, git-1.1.1
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
.
.
.
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
ipw2200: failed to register network device
.
ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:03.0 failed with error -5

i think you need to disable the driver in the kernel and use the windows driver with ndiswrapper

[bnei]

i think you need to disable the driver in the kernel and use the windows driver with ndiswrapper

Ok, ndiswrapper is one idea, but I can't get "make menuconfig" to work. For what I understand I should give the command "make menuconfig" in /usr/src/linux but then I get

scripts/Makefile.build:17: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/scripts/basic/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686/scripts/basic/Makefile'.  Stop.
make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2

It's complaining about the linux-headers:

Hajo:/usr/src/linux# uname -r
2.6.17-2-686

and

Hajo:/usr/src/linux# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
linux-headers-2.6.17-2-686 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So now I don't know what to do, where's the problem?