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Kwabbernoot kwabbernoot
Wed May 12 19:24:11 PDT 2004


Hi Glenn,

Uncommenting means removing the /* and the */ and not the #

The line should read
#define PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT

Regards,
Arnaud

glenn greenfield wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have the dwl-520e pci card, (Debian SID w/ 2.4.25 kernel) and read that the hostap driver should work but I can't even get the driver built correctly! :)
> I did read this howto http://home.columbus.rr.com/andrewbarr/dwl520e1.html#modules and all went as written 
> (except for these typos) 
> PRI=/etc/firmware/PM010102.HEX
> STA=/etc/firmware/RF010800.HEX
> 
> SHOULD read
> 
> PRI=/etc/firmware/pm010102.hex
> STA=/etc/firmware/rf010800.hex
> 
> anyway.....
> modprobe hostap
> modprobe hostap_pci
> modprobe hostap_crypt_wep
> hostap_fw_load wlan0
> 
> srec summary for pm010102.hex
> Included file name: PM010102.HEX
> Component: 0x0015 1.1.2 (primary firmware)
> 
> Verifying update compatibility and combining data:
> Plugging PDR 0400 (NIC configuration): ram16=1 pci=1 (07 00)
> OK.
> 
> Downloading to volatile memory (RAM).
> OK.
> srec summary for pm010102.hex
> Included file name: PM010102.HEX
> Component: 0x0015 1.1.2 (primary firmware)
> 
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No data available
> STAID not available (maybe running PRI-only)
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No data available
> ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_HOSTAPD]: No data available
> Could not read wlan PDA. This requires PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT definition in
> driver/module/hostap_config.h.
> 
> OK no problem I do rmmod and make clean and uncomment 
> 
> define PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT
> 
> but make fails:
> hostap_config.h:48: error: parse error before "PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT"
> 
> I tried repeatedly uncommenting all instances of PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT and then one at a time and other combinations but still same problem.  At the risk of sounding ignorant, I've never seen a file like hostap_config.h  Which one (or two or whatever) of those am I supposed to uncomment?  
> 
> TIA
> 
> 




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