Re: Newbie can't get the driver to work.

Hi,

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Dan Eskildsen wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I am a real newbie on linux - hope that you don't mind helping me.
>
> Here is the setup:
>
> I have a computer with win2k installed.  I connect to the net using a
> usb wireless lan adapter called Topcom Skr@cer 3511.  I have downloaded
> SUSE and now installed Suse 9.0 but I can't get the adapter to work in SuSE.
>
> I found my adapter listed on the page
> http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html
> So I downloaded: at76c503a driver, unpacked it and then did a make
> command but the result was a heap of errors (see below).
>
> When I connect my usb-wlan device the following lines appear in my
> var/log/messages (syslog).
>
> I don't know what kernel I have or how to find that out.  I have Suse 9.0
> Can anyone help me understand these error messages and what i need to do?

> gcc -MD -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing
> -fno-common -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused
> -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -DDRIVER_VERSION=\"v0.11\"
> -I/lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/build/include  -c at76c503.c
>
> In file included from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:205,
>                  from /usr/include/linux/poll.h:10,
>                  from at76c503.c:82:
>
> /usr/include/linux/page-flags.h:119: error: `CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT'
> undeclared here (not in a function

You need to install the kernel sources or at least the kernel headers (no
idea if SuSE supplies them) for your running kernel version
(2.4.21-144-athlon I guess). Try to use yast to find this package.

The above error is IMHO caused by the
symbolic link /lib/modules/2.4.21-144-athlon/build
not pointing to the root dir of the kernel sources.
gcc tries to include user space includes and fails.

Sorry, I'm not using SuSE - anyone else able to help?

/Jörg