[Voyage-linux] Re: Compiling drivers for VIA mini pci card ( solomon) vt6655

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Sean,

Thank you for your feedback.  I don't know ndiswrapper module work until 
now since I never tested it.

If you have spare time, please consider sharing your ndiswrapper 
experience in the wiki (wiki.voyage.hk).  Thanks.

- Punky


Sean wrote:
> Varadarajan,
>
> Do you have a NorhTec box? If so you should really use ndiswrapper and 
> the windows driver. The VIA driver is so bad! Associating to access 
> points when you don't want it to, requiring patches to wpasupplicant, 
> etc.
>
> Check out this page for instructions: 
> http://nicolas314.wordpress.com/norhtec-microclient-jr/
>
> The driver is here:
> http://www.norhtec.com/info/download/vt6655softwarepackage1.1.zip
>
> Punky has conveniently compiled ndiswrapper for the 
> ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.23-486-voyage. (THANKS PUNKY!) Just make sure 
> that this line is in your /etc/apt/sources.list.
>
> deb http://www.voyage.hk/dists/0.5 ./
>
> Sean
>
> varadarajan narayanan wrote:
>> set -e; for d in driver ; do make -C $d install ; done
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/boot/vt6655_v118_02/driver'
>> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.23-486-voyage/build 
>> SUBDIRS=/boot/vt6655_v118_02/driver                                              
>> modules
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.23-voyage'
>>
>>   WARNING: Symbol version dump 
>> /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.23-voyage/Module.symver                                             
>> s
>>            is missing; modules will have no dependencies and 
>> modversions.
>>
>>   Building modules, stage 2.
>>   MODPOST 1 modules
>> /bin/sh: scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
>> make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 127
>> make[2]: *** [modules] Error 2
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.23-voyage'
>> make[1]: *** [default] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/boot/vt6655_v118_02/driver'
>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>> voyage:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:05 AM, varadarajan narayanan 
>> <rad.narayanan at gmail.com <mailto:rad.narayanan at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi !
>>
>>     I am getting the following errors when compiling the drivers for
>>     this Mini PCI card from VIA with Voyage 0.5.2. <http://0.5.2.>
>>
>>     - symvers is missing - modules will have no dependencies or
>>     modversions
>>
>>     then it go to building modules stage 2
>>     MODPOST 1 modules
>>
>>     /bin/sh : scripts/mod/modpost: No such file or directory
>>
>>     and then Errror 127 then quits.
>>
>>     what is this modpost ? what am I missing ?
>>
>>     I tried compiling this in another pure debian etch it goes fine ?
>>     Please help !
>>
>>
>>
>>     Cheers
>>
>>     Rad
>>
>>
>>
>>
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