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mentalhawk

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Registered: 2008-08-25

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]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

I just recently installed Arch and I was following the newbie installation guide. I got to the step to configure wireless card, and I downloaded the correct .tar file for the fwcutter. I did the tar xjf thing and the next command to be issued was to Cd to that directory and make it. When I enter make nothing happens?

Last edited by mentalhawk (2008-08-25 04:09:23)

rooloo

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

yep, now what do you expect anyone here to do about it? why do people always complain and then never offer up the information some other person may need to debug the issue?

first off, post a link to the tar you used so I don't have to guess if there is more then one package in the AUR.

post the contents of the directory after you have un-tar'd and cd to the new directory. ls -l should suffice.

does 'make' have a verbose mode, debugging mode?

man make

Last edited by rooloo (2008-08-25 03:25:12)

mentalhawk

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

First of all I don't think the rudeness is necessary. This is the newbie corner and I did mention I was following the newbie guide to installing. I have little knowledge of linux and was attempting to try it out. This is the proper place for asking questions isn't it?

Anyway back to the issue.

ls -l returns:

Makefile
README
b43-fwcutter.1
fwcutter.c
fwcutter.h
cwcutter_list.h
md5.c
md5.h

These were the instructions given per linuxwireless.org

wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..

I have done all of the above and stuck on the "make" part.

tigrmesh

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

Do you have base-devel group installed?

mentalhawk

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

How would I check for it?

tigrmesh

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

It would have been an option during install.

pacman -Qg base-devel

mentalhawk

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

I see, I entered pacman -Qg base-devel and says package was not found.

I tried entering pacman -U base-devel to install but failed.

*edit* pacman -S base-devel worked.

Last edited by mentalhawk (2008-08-25 04:05:54)

mentalhawk

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

Thanks tigrmesh, that appeared to be the problem. Make appears to be working.

hacosta

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

there's a package for fwcutter BTW

rooloo

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Re: ]When I try to "make" nothing happens [Solved]

I'd recommend IRC if you have little knowledge of linux. People get a lot more help in irc.

BTW, I was not being rude, I was asking what you expected if you didn't want to provide any information. I see way too many threads here go unanswered because the OP starts threads out this way.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=16152

Last edited by rooloo (2008-08-25 10:58:11)