I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only
problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with
it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit and
installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver module
for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I do not know
what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able to compile. I
tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and it failed. Could
you ?

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Teilhard Knight escribió:
> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
> Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to
> go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I
> went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to
> compile my driver module for my wireless nic. I am ready with
> everything, except that I do not know what packages I should install in
> Debian in order to be able to compile. I tries naively supposing I could
> compile out of the box and it failed. Could you ?
>
> Teilhard.
>
apt-get install gcc

Jose Luis,
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On Tue March 27 2007 19:05, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only
> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with
> it, and that port doesn't include those environments.

I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail..

> Then I went 32 bit
> and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver
> module for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I do
> not know what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able to
> compile. I tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and it
> failed. Could you ?

My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with module-assistant.


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Teilhard Knight wrote:

> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port. Only
> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go with
> it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit
> and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver
> module for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I do
> not know what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able to
> compile. I tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and it
> failed. Could you ?
>
> Teilhard.

What is the chipset used by your wireless card? You can find this info by
looking at the output of "lspci -v" command. Most likely you need to use
module-assistant to compile drivers for your wireless cards.

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Teilhard Knight escribió:
> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
> Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to
> go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I
> went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to
> compile my driver module for my wireless nic. I am ready with
> everything, except that I do not know what packages I should install in
> Debian in order to be able to compile. I tries naively supposing I could
> compile out of the box and it failed. Could you ?
>
> Teilhard.
>
apt-get install gcc

Jose Luis,

Thank you so much, Jose Luis.

Teilhard.



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> I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail..

Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64?

<snip>

> My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with
> module-assistant.

How do I find and use module assistant?

Teilhard.



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> Teilhard Knight wrote:
>
>> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
>> Only
>> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go
>> with
>> it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit
>> and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver
>> module for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I do
>> not know what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able to
>> compile. I tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and it
>> failed. Could you ?
>>
>> Teilhard.
>
> What is the chipset used by your wireless card? You can find this info by
> looking at the output of "lspci -v" command. Most likely you need to use
> module-assistant to compile drivers for your wireless cards.

I didn't use that command, but I know that my wireless nic's chip is Atmel.
Do I need module-assistant? Where do I find it? How do I use it?

Teilhard.



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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:56:03 -0600
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@nerdshack.com> wrote:

> > Teilhard Knight wrote:
> >
> >> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
> >> Only
> >> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go
> >> with
> >> it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32 bit
> >> and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my driver
> >> module for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I do
> >> not know what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able to
> >> compile. I tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and it
> >> failed. Could you ?
> >>
> >> Teilhard.
> >
> > What is the chipset used by your wireless card? You can find this info by
> > looking at the output of "lspci -v" command. Most likely you need to use
> > module-assistant to compile drivers for your wireless cards.
>
> I didn't use that command, but I know that my wireless nic's chip is Atmel.
> Do I need module-assistant? Where do I find it? How do I use it?

The driver (at76c50x) is apparently in 2.6 kernels (no m-a necessary).
You'll need firmware; see the atmel-firmware (in non-free) package.

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On Tue ... you wrote....

> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
> Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE
>to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments.

.... later you wrote in answer to this....
> > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail..
>
> Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64?


I'm not too sure I understand the first part, with it's implied
'problem'.
I have an AMD64 machine, ... I have installed, and have running Etch (in
64 bit mode) and also have KDE and GNOME desktops (and packages)
installed. (I'm in Gnome now as I type this) I did have some
difficulties with the new BIOS on the machine and how it was
interrogating the SATA with SMART, and also with getting the full GLX 3d
acceleration to work with my NVIDIA chipset.... <BUT> ....they are not
what I believe you are seeing as the 'problem'.
I didn't have any problems getting Gnome and KDE to install and work.
What 'problem' are you anticipating? From my experience they both work
fine (albeit the new NVIDIA driver upsets KDE colours if you switch
between them... but that again is not a fault of the kernel (AFAIK).

Ian


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On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote:
> > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail..
>
> Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64?

Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others.

> > My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with
> > module-assistant.

> How do I find and use module assistant?

m-a is a standard debian package, just "apt-get install module-assistant"
should get it for you, or select it with aptitude, dselect, syaptic or adept.
Once it's installed "m-a prepare" will setup your box with all the stuff you
need to compile kernels then "m-a a-i madwifi" will get the madwifi source
and build and install the madwifi module. You may need a different driver for
your card.

That should keep you out of trouble for a while.. Hollar if you need
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Teilhard Knight wrote:
> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
> Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to
> go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I
> went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to
> compile my driver module for my wireless nic. I am ready with
> everything, except that I do not know what packages I should install in
> Debian in order to be able to compile. I tries naively supposing I could
> compile out of the box and it failed. Could you ?
>
> Teilhard.
>

It sounds to me like you did something wrong with the etch install.

Etch AMD64 most certainly has gnome and KDE.

As for compiling things, the first thing you should install if you want
to compile things is build-essential. It is a meta-package that will
pull in most of the tools you need.

aptitude (or apt-get) install build-essential

(Ok, you experts, this is us "user-friendly" way so don't yell at me for
not telling him to get each package individually)

Joe

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> On Tue ... you wrote....
>
>> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
>> Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE
>>to go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments.
>
> ... later you wrote in answer to this....
>> > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail..
>>
>> Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64?
>
>
> I'm not too sure I understand the first part, with it's implied
> 'problem'.
> I have an AMD64 machine, ... I have installed, and have running Etch (in
> 64 bit mode) and also have KDE and GNOME desktops (and packages)
> installed. (I'm in Gnome now as I type this) I did have some
> difficulties with the new BIOS on the machine and how it was
> interrogating the SATA with SMART, and also with getting the full GLX 3d
> acceleration to work with my NVIDIA chipset.... <BUT> ....they are not
> what I believe you are seeing as the 'problem'.
> I didn't have any problems getting Gnome and KDE to install and work.
> What 'problem' are you anticipating? From my experience they both work
> fine (albeit the new NVIDIA driver upsets KDE colours if you switch
> between them... but that again is not a fault of the kernel (AFAIK).
>
> Ian

Thank you for replying, Ian. I'm most surely mistaken on what I said, I have
been corrected several times. I now have the 32 bit version and I have
managed to make my wireless nic work, so, perhaps I'll think twice to
change. In any case, I did something wrong when installing the 64 bit
version.

Teilhard



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> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:56:03 -0600
> "Teilhard Knight" <teilhk@nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
>> > Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
>> >> Only
>> >> problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to go
>> >> with
>> >> it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I went 32
>> >> bit
>> >> and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to compile my
>> >> driver
>> >> module for my wireless nic. I am ready with everything, except that I
>> >> do
>> >> not know what packages I should install in Debian in order to be able
>> >> to
>> >> compile. I tries naively supposing I could compile out of the box and
>> >> it
>> >> failed. Could you ?
>> >>
>> >> Teilhard.
>> >
>> > What is the chipset used by your wireless card? You can find this info
>> > by
>> > looking at the output of "lspci -v" command. Most likely you need to
>> > use
>> > module-assistant to compile drivers for your wireless cards.
>>
>> I didn't use that command, but I know that my wireless nic's chip is
>> Atmel.
>> Do I need module-assistant? Where do I find it? How do I use it?
>
> The driver (at76c50x) is apparently in 2.6 kernels (no m-a necessary).
> You'll need firmware; see the atmel-firmware (in non-free) package.
>
> Celejar

Thank you for your feedback. The module is called now at76_usb, at least the
Berlios one. I have already compiled it and installed it and now my wireless
nic is working.

Teilhard.



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> On Tue March 27 2007 21:50, Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> > I'm running etch-amd64 as I type this in kmail..
>>
>> Do you mean you have KDE in Etch AMD64?
>
> Yes, even sarge-amd64 has kde and gnome and a few others.
>
>> > My wireless nic uses the madwifi driver so I install it with
>> > module-assistant.
>
>> How do I find and use module assistant?
>
> m-a is a standard debian package, just "apt-get install module-assistant"
> should get it for you, or select it with aptitude, dselect, syaptic or
> adept.
> Once it's installed "m-a prepare" will setup your box with all the stuff
> you
> need to compile kernels then "m-a a-i madwifi" will get the madwifi source
> and build and install the madwifi module. You may need a different driver
> for
> your card.
>
> That should keep you out of trouble for a while.. Hollar if you need
> ..

Thanks very much for your , Alan. I do not have experience working with
the module-assistant, so I had a look at it and got lost very soon. I
followed the traditional "make", "make install" path for my tarball and was
able to install my module and make my nic work. Your was appreciated.

Teilhard.



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> Teilhard Knight wrote:
>> I have an AMD64 box and I was looking to install the AMD64 Etch port.
>> Only problem with that is that I want either Gnome or preferably KDE to
>> go with it, and that port doesn't include those environments. Then I
>> went 32 bit and installed the KDE version of i386. Now, I want to
>> compile my driver module for my wireless nic. I am ready with
>> everything, except that I do not know what packages I should install in
>> Debian in order to be able to compile. I tries naively supposing I could
>> compile out of the box and it failed. Could you ?
>>
>> Teilhard.
>>
>
> It sounds to me like you did something wrong with the etch install.
>
> Etch AMD64 most certainly has gnome and KDE.
>
> As for compiling things, the first thing you should install if you want
> to compile things is build-essential. It is a meta-package that will
> pull in most of the tools you need.
>
> aptitude (or apt-get) install build-essential
>
> (Ok, you experts, this is us "user-friendly" way so don't yell at me for
> not telling him to get each package individually)

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Joe. I wouldn't had been able to compile my
module without your . I have now wireless internet in my box which is
just cool.

Teilhard.



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