Re: madwifi again: 0.9.2.1 does not build against kernel 2.6.20-1.2925.fc6-i686
Neal Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.freshrpms.user |
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On Thursday 15 March 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > > On Thursday 15 March 2007, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > >> just as a warning: the coming 2.6.20 kernel (which hit fc6 > >> updates-testing) breaks the madwifi driver. > >> > >> See <http://madwifi.org/ticket/1141>. Possible solutions: > >> > >> - Wait for 0.9.3. > >> - Use r2096 from svn > >> - backport patches (if possible). > >> > >> Any opinions? > > > > I'm using svn OK, I built a dkms version. Let me know if you want the > > spec. > > Yes, sure I'd like it - but I was thinking about a more general solution > for people using the freshrpms repository :) > I could contribute this to freshrpms. I put an srpm here: https://nbecker.dyndns.org/RPM/madwifi-ng-1.fc6.src.rpm A few things that could be cleaned up: 1) named madwifi-ng. The original tarball extracts this way, so it was easier. 2) More than the minimal kernel source is put into /usr/src. Not worth my time to fix this, but be my guest.