Re: kmod-madwifi--where is the update?

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Temlakos schrieb:
> Adam Hough wrote:
>> This is why I have pulled down a nightly snapshot of the madawifi-ng
>> driver and build my own rpm using the spec file from the livna rpms. 
>>
>> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:49 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>   
>>> Temlakos schrieb:
>>>     
>>>> Why hasn't Livna pushed an update of kmod-madwifi for the latest kernel 
>>>> update? I can't run a laptop without madwifi (well, I can, but I 
>>>> wouldn't have any network access without plugging in a hard wire). I've 
>>>> waited for three days for Livna to push that update and they haven't 
>>>> done it. What goes on?
>>>>       
>>> The current version doesn't build on 2.6.20. Upstream afaik promised a
>>> new version that is compatible to 2.6.20 for yesterday -- but it's not
>>> there yet afaik. Patches that are of a small size that make it work
>>> would be appreciated, but maybe just waiting for 0.9.3 to come out might
>>> be easier now.
>>>
>>> <political>BTW, this is one of the reasons why external kernel-modules
>>> suck.<missionaring>Prefer hardware that is supported by
>>> in-kernel-drivers!</missionaring></political>
>>>     
> Could you please write a how-to for that?

that?

kmod packages are nearly normal rpm spec files, so the usual stuff fopr
writing spec files should help.

> I have an rpm build 
> environment set up--I used it to build my own rpm's from Sun's Java 
> binary. (Thanks, Michael Peters.) Does rpm.livna.org have a set of 
> instructions on how to rebuild a module for any kernel?

Does "How do I rebuild a kmod srpm for one kernel" on
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/KernelModules
help?

BTW, madwifi 0.9.3 rpms are building, they should be available soon.

Cu
thl

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