build-essential madness

[Ouoertheo]

I've been switching back and forth between windows and ubuntu studio 64 for about 3 hours straight trying to get the dependencies to install so I can build my wifi drivers.
So it comes down to me trying to install g++-4.2 and not being able to because libstdc++6-4.2-dev needs to be installed... well I can't install libstdc++6-4.2-dev without freaking g++-4.2 installed.
So as I'm smashing my face onto my keyboard from the sheer insanity of linux madness, I'm slowly losing hope of ever having a linux system run smoothly.

Someone please help and explain an easy way to get a build environment for my wireless drivers that doesnt involve infinite dependency loops. Preferably while I still have a keyboard and a face that are not fused together.

[Temüjin]

Have you tried going to System -> Administration -> Software Sources
and disabling all sources except the install CD?

That way, you can use your install CD to install packages.

Out of curiosity, what wifi do you have?

[jpkotta]

Works fine for me.

sudo aptitude install g++-4.2

You could try downloading the packages from packages.ubuntu.com and installing them manually.

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/package.deb

[Ouoertheo]

I thank your for your replies, it turned out that I had a corrupted libstd install somehow. So after trying all that you posted here (without any luck) I decided to stop being lazy and drag my computer to my router and connect it via cable. So I did manage to get my build environment installed.

But unfortunately that didn't fix my problem.

This is what it is doing when i run make.

ouoertheo@frostbite:~/Desktop/compat-wireless-2.6$ sudo make
[sudo] password for ouoertheo:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-rt/build M=/home/ouoertheo/Desktop/compat-wireless-2.6 modules
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-rt/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [modules] Error 2
ouoertheo@frostbite:~/Desktop/compat-wireless-2.6$

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to compile the wireless drivers?

[Ouoertheo]

BTW, the network driver is for the ABS NW-200-USB

[jpkotta]

Don't run make as root. Just run the "make install" part as root. You probably don't have the kernel headers installed.
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r)