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mfleming
May 25th, 2009, 11:35 AM
Folks,

I'd really appreciate your help with the following. I have a MacBook Pro 5.2 with Ubuntu 9.04 installed. I'm trying to follow the instructions from this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-1_5-2/Jaunty#Touchpad to get the touchpad working properly. But when I try to insall bcm5974-dkms I get the following errors:

Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main dkms 2.0.21.1-0ubuntu3 [57.6kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main usbhid-dkms 0.11.2 [45.0kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main fakeroot 1.12.1ubuntu1 [115kB]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main bcm5974-dkms 1.1.3-0ubuntu1~mactel-support1~intrepid1 [11.2kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main patch 2.5.9-5 [100kB]
Fetched 329kB in 0s (385kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package dkms.
(Reading database ... 102008 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dkms (from .../dkms_2.0.21.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package usbhid-dkms.
Unpacking usbhid-dkms (from .../usbhid-dkms_0.11.2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package bcm5974-dkms.
Unpacking bcm5974-dkms (from .../bcm5974-dkms_1.1.3-0ubuntu1~mactel-support1~intrepid1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package fakeroot.
Unpacking fakeroot (from .../fakeroot_1.12.1ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package patch.
Unpacking patch (from .../patch_2.5.9-5_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up dkms (2.0.21.1-0ubuntu3) ...
* Running DKMS auto installation service for kernel 2.6.28-11-generic [ OK ]

Setting up usbhid-dkms (0.11.2) ...
Loading new usbhid-0.11.2 DKMS files...

Loading tarball for module: usbhid / version: 0.11.2

Loading /usr/src/usbhid-0.11.2...
Creating /var/lib/dkms/usbhid/0.11.2/source symlink...

DKMS: ldtarball Completed.
Installing prebuilt kernel module binaries (if any)
Building module...

Kernel preparation unnecessary for this kernel. Skipping...

Building module:
cleaning build area....
make KERNELRELEASE=2.6.28-11-generic -C /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/build SUBDIRS=/var/lib/dkms/usbhid/0.11.2/build modules....(bad exit status: 2)

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.28-11-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/usbhid/0.11.2/build/ for more information.
0
0
dpkg: error processing usbhid-dkms (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bcm5974-dkms:
bcm5974-dkms depends on usbhid-dkms; however:
Package usbhid-dkms is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing bcm5974-dkms (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up fakeroot (1.12.1ubuntu1) ...
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.

Setting up patch (2.5.9-5) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
usbhid-dkms
bcm5974-dkms
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Help!

cyberdork33
May 26th, 2009, 01:07 PM
you appear to have your sources setup to retreive the intrepid packages from the PPA, and you are using Jaunty. you need to change them to use the Jaunty packages.

https://edge.launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa