Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 13:36 -0400, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > I've used DKMS for ecryptfs, unionfs, qvm86, and a few other drivers, > > and it is no hassle at all. Recent versions even have mkrpm and mkkmp > > (Kernel Module Package) commands. > > It's also been working great for me [for years] for ov518 webcam > support. You have no idea how nice it is to compile some wacky -mm > kernel, fire it up, and have all your hardware working without having to > manually do this yourself. > > I've just spent the better half of this afternoon adding ipw3945 support > into a fedora kernel. Bear in mind that it uses the git version of > ieee80211, and that it doesn't compile in 2.6.18 and you get the idea. > But it works :-) Wrong. You need two tiny changes to get 1.1.0 to work: - Force the API version to 2 (the logic in the Makefile gets confused by the old version string in the kernel's header) - Delete the inclusion of the deleted config.h in the .h file [...] > Then there's the binary stuff, and the microcode but I would have to > look at the licences of those in detail. The firmware can't be redistributed. But it is not a part of the driver anyway. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
