Re: Problem with madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.fc6 with kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6?

On Monday 22 January 2007 6:01 am, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote :
> > So, looks to me that, my bad luck, 1st test was with a kernel that has
> > some problem with madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.fc6?
>
> Indeed. This is unfortunately where dkms gets to its limit. The same
> happened to the ntfs module, which no longer built on the latest FC6
> updated kernels, and for which the latest sources/package no longer
> builds on the older FC6 kernels :-(
>
> I guess I'll start adding some requires for a certain kernel version
> when that happens, unfortunately it's impossible to predict future
> breakage, so fixing the situation you got into is impossible...
>
> I'll try and look at the madwifi build issue ASAP, unless someone beats
> me to it and posts the result to the list ;-)
>

AFAICT, it did build.  It just doesn't work.