Re: [Hampshire] Edimax wi-fi card

On 15/04/2008, john lewis <johnlewis@???> wrote:
> Several people have said have installed these cards easily so as I've
> had no luck trying to set up drivers for the D-Link DWL-G650 card, I
> decided to get and Edimax card.
>
> I have read through the instructions on pages 8 &9 of the
> README.pdf and tried running the install script supplied but
> compilation fails with a series of error messages.
>
> it finds /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.4-24-1-686 which matches the
> kernel version OK.
>
> first error line is "implicit declaration of function
> 'SET_MODULE_OWNER' "
>
> and eventually returns "rt61,ko failed to build!"
>
> I am running debian testing on the laptop
>
> what else do I need to do to get this card working? It isn't
> essential to get it working today or next week and I can easily wait
> until the next Soton LUG meet but it is annoying that it doesn't "just
> work" as other people have claimed.
>
> lspci isn't even finding the card although insertion and removal of
> the card is recorded in dmesg.
>
> --
> John Lewis
> Debian (Sid) & the GeneWeb genealogical data server
>

Do you have the kernel headers and kernel source code installed on your system?
You should be able to get away with just the kernel headers.