I was following this guide (which I have used in the past successfully) http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-5007e ... tform.html
and I got the following message:
Setting up build-essential (11.3ubuntu1) ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Building tag database... Done
todd@todd-laptop ~/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 $ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
todd@todd-laptop ~/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 $
anyone know what this means?
Setting up Atheros wireless card
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Setting up Atheros wireless card
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Re: Setting up Atheros wireless card
Did you run "make" before "sudo make install"?
Re: Setting up Atheros wireless card
Yes, I got this:proxima_centauri wrote:Did you run "make" before "sudo make install"?
todd@todd-laptop ~/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 $ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
todd@todd-laptop ~/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 $ sudo make install
make: *** No rule to make target `install'. Stop.
todd@todd-laptop ~/madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 $
Re: Setting up Atheros wireless card
It seems I have been following some outdated instructions. Back to the drawing board.
Re: Setting up Atheros wireless card
Yes I reaize that too, the only thing in that tarball is a readme file, which will instruct you to a newer version of madwifi, try doing that perhaps.
Re: Setting up Atheros wireless card
Yeah, tried that and it ran fine but wireless never started.proxima_centauri wrote:Yes I reaize that too, the only thing in that tarball is a readme file, which will instruct you to a newer version of madwifi, try doing that perhaps.