I have a Dell laptop about 4 years old and it has a built-in wifi which doesn't get detected by chicken-wing default setup using ceni so I have 2 other usb wifi adapters (Ralink RT2870) & (Edimax EW-7811Un) and both are recognized but don't connect to the network. The edimax for example keeps broadcasting for a DHCP address with DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
a few times then says No DHCPOFFERS received but again no problem using some other linux like LinuxLite or Antix.
All the 3 wifi adapters work fine in other flavors of linux but this one so I figured I would just try to compile the drivers from the installation CD of the edimax which looks like it uses the Realtek RTL8188C chipset hence it's driver name RTL8188C_8192C_USB_linux_v4.0.2.
During compilation it returns the following error:
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Authentication requested [root] for make clean:
rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko *~
rm .tmp_versions -fr ; rm Module.symvers -fr
rm -fr Module.markers ; rm -fr modules.order
cd core/efuse ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
cd core ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
cd hal/rtl8192c/usb ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
cd hal/rtl8192c ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
cd hal ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
cd os_dep/linux ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
cd os_dep ; rm -fr *.mod.c *.mod *.o .*.cmd *.ko
Authentication requested [root] for make driver:
make ARCH=i386 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/3.17-5.towo-siduction-686/build M=/home/bbq/RTL8188C/driver/rtl8188C_8192C_usb_linux_v4.0.2_9000.20130911 modules
make[1]: *** /lib/modules/3.17-5.towo-siduction-686/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
Makefile:584: recipe for target 'modules' failed
make: *** [modules] Error 2
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Compile make driver error: 2
Please check error Mesg
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root@grill:/home/bbq/RTL8188C#
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package linux-headers-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'linux-headers-generic' has no installation candidate
root@grill:/home/bbq#
Thanks for any ideas :)