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

[Sean]

Sure, I will post something.

Sean

Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> 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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