[ale] No Wirless on Suse

Matt Kubilus mattkubilus at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 19:20:08 EDT 2007


Were you building the module when you got the error?  If the error is
during building I don't think you would cause any harm.

-Matt

On 3/31/07, Pervaz Allaudin <pervaza at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Did you try adding IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y ?  What was the result?
> -Matt
>
> No I did not - Afraid it would cause some unwanted side affect.
> Maybe I should gie it a try?
> Pervaz
>
> On 3/30/07, Pervaz Allaudin <pervaza at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I had been trying to get more into Linux over time but am having trouble
> > with my new laptop and the Suse 10.1 I have installed in dual boot.
> > The wireless does not work. I tried to follow one of the earlier emails
> and
> > downloaded and tried to install intel 3945 driver but got this error.
> >
> > WARNING: Your kernel contains ieee80211 symbol definitions and you
> >  are not using the kernel's default ieee80211 subsystem
> > and
> > Aborting the build.  You can force the build to continue by adding:
> >         IEEE80211_IGNORE_DUPLICATE=y
> >
> > So seems I have the drivers but have run into the famous copyright  issue.
> > Should I be doing this or the "NDIS". Could someone please point me to
> some
> > documentation to do this. Is it a very complicated install ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Pervaz Allaudin
> >
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