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
