Re: What's up with wireless drivers?

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 05/22/2010 06:40 AM, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> On 22.05.2010 15:35, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > On 05/22/2010 06:13 AM, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > On 22.05.2010 14:43, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > > On 22.05.2010 10:40, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > > > On 22.05.2010 00:20, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > > > > On 22.05.2010 00:12, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > > > On Fri, 21 May 2010 23:31:28 +0200 Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 21.05.2010 23:21, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On 21.05.2010 23:07, John W. Linville wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:53:56PM +0200, Piotr Hosowicz wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > I try to build kernel from git source. Now n-th build try is
> > > > > > > > > > > performing, each time it failed on wireless drivers - Atheros,
> > > > > > > > > > > Marvel etc. Did I miss something?
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > Piotr Hosowicz
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Perhaps you should post your actual output from the build
> > > > > > > > > > failure?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I dont have it right now, I disabled wireless at all and started
> > > > > > > > > build.
> > > > > > > > > The output to the console was make-kpkg ordinary message - saying
> > > > > > > > > that
> > > > > > > > > sub build finished with error code 2 AFAIR, it stopped each
> > > > > > > > > time on
> > > > > > > > > wireless drivers.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Zonk! It seems that the problem is not only with wireless, now it
> > > > > > > > broke
> > > > > > > > here:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > (snip)
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/usb/int51x1.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/usb/cdc-phonet.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_main.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/wan/wanxl.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/usb/ipheth.o
> > > > > > > > LD [M] drivers/net/wan/cyclomx.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.o
> > > > > > > > CC [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_proto.o
> > > > > > > > LD [M] drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc.o
> > > > > > > > make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu
> > > > > > > > `/usr/src/linus/linux-2.6-20100521-2044'
> > > > > > > > make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Błąd 2
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Opuszczenie katalogu `/usr/src/linus/linux-2.6-20100521-2044' is
> > > > > > > > "leaving directory", Błąd is error.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > That still doesn't show the actual error/problem message...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Because there was no other messages, maybe Debian make-kpkg mutes
> > > > > > them
> > > > > > some way. I can try tommorrow the classic linux way and test it. I
> > > > > > attach botching config.
> > > > >
> > > > > I git-pulled and have run build with make-kpkg --verbose, again
> > > > > failed.
> > > > > This is the tail of the output:
> > > >
> > > > (snip)
> > > >
> > > > I tried git8 from kernel.org and the make-kpkg build fails on iwlwifi.
> > > > I'll give up for today I think.
> > >
> > > I gave it one more try and it failed again like in my first post
> > > yesterday:
> > >
> > > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_rtl8225.o
> > > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.o
> > > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.o
> > > CC [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_rfkill.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8180.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_htc.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.o
> > > LD [M] drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd1211rw.o
> > > make[1]: Opuszczenie katalogu `/usr/src/linux-2.6.34-git8'
> > > make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Błąd 2
> > >
> > > zd1211rw is in wireless Zydas device driver, behaves like yesterday
> > >
> > > I am giving up for a time being or may be someone will help me here.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Piotr Hosowicz
> >
> >
> > not sure whats happening and/or how debian is
> > building the kernel, but can you try
> > make V=1 so there is more of a verbose message
> > on the screen of whats breaking.
>
> This is the same what --verbose make-kpkg switch is doing and I've tried
> that and posted result here.
>
> Regards,
>
> Piotr Hosowicz


what about strace make
(maybe will give you info)

Justin P. Mattock
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