Hello!
I have had trouble with the Intel WiFi Link 5300 ever since I got it. I thought I could just install drivers for it, but couldn't. Backstory: I was using the EeePC 1000 until I realized the built-in mobile adapter couldn't do WPA. I tried a half dozen solutions but it didn't work, so I bought the Intel 5300.
So, I have tried pytheas22's solution, but I am having trouble. Since the old drivers he mentioned only work up to 2.6.26 and I am running 2.6.28-15. I downloaded the most recent compat-wireless, thinking it would work, but I run into the following error at the end of the make:
Code:
andrei@jrisidore:~/compat-wireless-2009-09-12$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.28-15-generic/build M=/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
CC [M] /home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.o
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c: In function ‘b43_do_interrupt’:
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:1888: error: ‘IRQ_WAKE_THREAD’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:1888: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:1888: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c: In function ‘b43_request_firmware’:
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:2218: warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c: In function ‘b43_wireless_core_start’:
/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:3871: error: implicit declaration of function ‘request_threaded_irq’
make[4]: *** [/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless/b43] Error 2
make[2]: *** [/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12/drivers/net/wireless] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/andrei/compat-wireless-2009-09-12] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
I have tried to look up the issue with IRQ_WAKE_THREAD, but only find references to Linux kernel commits and something called "genirq." I figure that I may be missing some library or other.
Currently my wireless is not working at all and would like some help.
Thanks in advance.