Compat-Wireless with Helena?

[Chasester]

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Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x wireless cards

I had compat working great in Mint 7 - (worked very smoothly). But now with Helena I receive the same errors when performing make that Husse did in this thread
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=157&t=38247&p=224395#p224395



errors are:

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/home/husse/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-12-11/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c: In function ‘rtl8187_unregister_led’:
/home/husse/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-12-11/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c:170: error: implicit declaration of function ‘flush_delayed_work’
make[4]: *** [/home/husse/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-12-11/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/home/husse/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-12-11/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/home/husse/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-12-11/drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/husse/Desktop/compat-wireless-2009-12-11] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-14-generic'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Anyone have any luck with compat on Helena period or with the Atheros specifically?

[Husse]

I do hope you don't get errors like /home/husse/Desktop/......
Just asking because I've seen some strange things in the forum
I can't check if it works but I do have a Gigaset USB thing that seems to use Atheros but I think Siemens and/or the manufacturer Cybertan has made changes to it

[remoulder]

Chasester, you don't need to make compat-wireless, you just need to install the backports

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic

[Husse]

mikeyb - is the latest Atheros there?
If so that's a relief because it can be hard to get it working else

[remoulder]

Husse, theses are meta packages that always pull down the latest release compiled by the ubuntu kernel team. According to http://old.nabble.com/V3---Karmic-LBM-request-pull-td27014691.html, this is currently at compat-wireless 2.6.32.2 which is not the latest stable release http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable. They made a change last year from the testing release to stable.

[Husse]

Husse, theses are meta packages that always pull down the latest release compiled by the ubuntu kernel team.

I know that, but this means it's not always the latest you get
Seems that 2.6.32 is the latest stable though - there is also 2.6.33-rc1 which should not be a stable

[Chasester]

I do hope you don't get errors like /home/husse/Desktop/......
Just asking because I've seen some strange things in the forum
I can't check if it works but I do have a Gigaset USB thing that seems to use Atheros but I think Siemens and/or the manufacturer Cybertan has made changes to it

HA! certainly not that.

Chasester, you don't need to make compat-wireless, you just need to install the backports

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic-generic
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-wireless-karmic-generic

Thanks Mikey, I'll give it a shot when I can get back home and let you know. Earlier under 7 I had gone through the steps with it.

[TheWhiteDemon]

Well I don't know if this will help, but I am running the current version of compat in Mint 8 with an Atheros card. The steps I followed were:

1. Be sure that you have linux headers installed.
2. cd compat-wireless-2010-01-06
3. ./scripts/driver-select ath9k
4. make
5. sudo make install
6. sudo make unload
7. sudo modprobe ath9k

From your post it looked like you did not have the most recent version of the compat drivers as there was a new set put out this month. Also as you can see my Atheros card uses the ath9k driver which may be different than yours. I did have some issues with other compat versions so give the latest one a try. Hope this helps.

[soryuu]

Ok I'm having the SAME problem. I'm still looking around for solutions for the wireless antenna. I have a AR9285 Aetheros piece of hardware (pci id 168c 002b), and my internet is realllly dodgy.

At school I can't pick up any signal even when I'm next to the router and at home its in and out all the time. And I've already downloaded the backports.
I need to have my internet at school and I don't know what to do about it. If you guys or anyone else has any info or suggestions please let me know!