Re: BenQ AWL400

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, AthlonRob wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:04, Joerg Albert wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Alberto Garcia Hierro wrote:
> >
> > > 	$ make
> > > 	->become root
> > > 	$ make install
> > > ...
> >
> > with kernel 2.6 you must be a user with write access to
> > the kernel source dirs for the normal make, i.e. on some installations you
> > must be root for the first line as well.
>
> The $rant_about_wlan-ng wlan-ng drivers seem to require write access to
> the 2.6 sources, too.
>
> Why is that?  I wonder, are the two related or two totally seperate
> things?

Berlios uses the 2.6. kernel source make system (scripts ?) to build the
driver as proposed by Pavel Roskin (and I guess he influenced the wlan-ng
Makefile as well). No idea if there are other, better ways - I was
happy about Pavel's help.

/Jörg