On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 9:17 AM, David H. Lynch Jr. <dhlii@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am working with the carl9170 driver. > I have a working development environment based on wireless-testing. > > I am going to need to support carl9170 with older linux versions. > I pullled the compat-wireless git tree and can not figure out how to > build from it. > Is there any step by step instructions to get from the raw git tree > to being able to build against a specific kernel source ? > > I DL'd the compat-wireless tarball for 2.6.32. I was able to get that > working against ubuntu lucid kernel sources. > When I add the carl9170 driver I get a large collection of errors > building it. > While some of these appear to be very specific to this driver > many seem specific to differences between 2.6.32 compat-wireless and > wireless testing. I was hoping moving to the compat-wireless git tree would > fix that, but I can not figure out how to build from it. compat-wireless uses linux-next as a source base tree, not wireless-testing. Maybe that will help you. > In an altogether different project it would be useful use compat-wireless > to support a newer wifi driver with a 2.6.27 kernel. That seems fairly > standard. But I need to cross compile the kernel. As best as I can tell > compat-wireless is setup to work against your current running kernel. Are > there any pointers for cross-compiling with compat-wireless, or for building > against source other than that for the running kernel ? Cross compilation is covered on the wiki pages for it, you modify KLIB KLIB_BUILD. Luis -- 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
