On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 08:32, Paul Peeler wrote: > My apologies if this has been covered. I am at the moment looking to > pull the archives of the list in an effort to see if it has. > > I am running on a Thinkpad T40p. I need APM in order to sleep the > machine properly as there are a lot of issues without it. In addition, > hotplug finally works in the manner that I have hoped after what is > seemingly a 2.6.6 patch. > > I have recompiled a custom version of 2.6.7 with APM support that > seems to work without issue, though when I try to compile the madwifi > driver against that new kernel, the process fails. Is there anyone > here that has either had a similar problem, or that has experience > with the MadWifi driver? If necessary I can provide the output of the > failure, though I am looking to find if there is someone actively > working on a similar problem. > > Paul > Paul, I have been using the MadWifi driver on FC2 with each of the kernels that Fedora has released and while I have gotten "warning" errors with each compile, it has been successful in usage.... In fact, because I am lazy, I have a script that downloads the latest CVS and then compiles it. Requirement is simply that I have the kernel-sourcecode package installed. > #!/bin/bash > # > # update_madwifi.sh > # > # Presumes that we have upgraded and booted to a new kernel. > > cd /home/rlocke/Download/RPMs > rm -rf madwifi > mkdir madwifi > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/madwifi co madwifi > cd madwifi > make > make install And I also reject Kudzu's attempts to configure it and have the files there myself... But take a look at the MadWifi FAQ, it also mentions certain things that must be compiled into your "custom" kernel since you are doing it yourself.... The FAQ is at: http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm HTH, --Rob
