Re: [Security-Discuss] Mandrake prevent sec kernel updates

Le Mardi 22 Février 2005 22:55, Juergen Holm a écrit :
> The subject is a little bit provocant. Sorry, but it's true:
>
> I'am using madwifi (via free download available, eg.
> http://atrpms.net/dist/fc2/madwifi/ for fedora src.rpms or on
> sourceforge, patches for 2.6.8.x from
> http://users.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/~gropp_v/madwifi-2.6.8_and_-mm-04082
>1.patch.bz2) and the wpa_supplicant (free download, eg
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/).
>
> A kernelupdate isn't possible, because there is no kernelmodule for the
> latest 2.6 kernel of MD 10.1, nor the source rpm for a rebuild.
> The club page (http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=2458) states:
>
>   	NB : Source RPMs are not available for obvious legal reasons
>
> Nothing is obvious for madwifi, see above links!
> Why isn't there a src.rpm on the club, or at least a spec-file with
> download links?
> I am silver clubmember.

ask for a dkms package for madwifi

> The same story with nvidia driver a long time ago. I was constrained to
> develop my own src rpm to upgrade to the newest mdk-kernels for sec
> reasons. (Yes, one year after MY src.rpm, Mandrake publish
> the their src.rpm. What about the "obvious legal reasons" in this case?)
> I thought I can avoid this needless work with a club membership, but I'm
> wrong.

there's dkms package now.



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