On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Jorge Munoz <jorgeroden1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's all right. I have followed all the steps written in compat-wireless > (http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Buildingandinstalling) and it > works! > First of all I have had to install build-essential and > linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic in my ubuntu based distro > (www.molinux.info) compilation has done without any error (very clean). > This is a key improvement, now the signal level is better and wireless > traffic isn't interrupted. Good job. Thank you. > > In order to help my colleagues I would like you to advice me about next > issue. Ubuntu has a linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic but your > improvement isn't on it yet. The problem is that this package includes > others modules for Toshiba L300 hardware support (webcam, ...) and should be > necessary install it. My question is if I can install the rtl8187.ko file > directly (without compilation process) in another L300 laptop after > upgrading the system with linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic. > Thanks again Kernel modules are matched to the specific kernel version (and archtecture). I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but in fact any of your colleague could just 1) copy your /lib/modules/<kver>/updates/ recursively 2) run "depmod -a" 3) either reboot or unload and reload the kernel module with "modprobe -r rtl8187" then "modprobe -v rtl8187" In fact step two is probably not necessary if you choose to reboot, since depmod is often run just based on time-stamp at boot up. I assume your question is just whether step 1) would work - the answer is yes, provided you run depmod afterwards, or equivalent. You actually don't need to copy the whole of that 40+ modules from compar-wireless, just 4: rtl8187 mac80211 eeprom_93cx6 cfg80211 (lsmod would tell you this). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
