Gordon Charrick wrote:
I'm running fc3 on my computer and almost ready to upgrade to fc4. I
have a wireless card using madwifi from atrpms.net. If I upgrade to fc4,
I'll be running 2.6.11-1.1369. Axel's web site only has a prebuilt
module for the latest 2.6.12 kernels and I haven't been able to find any
old modules on the net. Trying to build the module using the source rpm
gets me this:
$ rpmbuild -bb madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.spec
error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl madwifi
So, my choices are the following:
1. Figure out how to build the module from the source rpm. Anyone know
what I'm missing to build it?
2. Do the upgrade and have the 2.6.12 kernel and madwifi module already
downloaded and hope I don't run into a dependency problem.
3. Find someplace on the net that archives old madwifi modules for the
original fc4 kernel version.
Obviously, number 3 is the best choice, if I can find such a site.
What's the best solution to the problem?
I build it from the latest tgz file each time I install an FC4 kernel
upgrade. It's a simple as
do_madwifi:
#! /bin/sh
cd /usr/local/src
rm -fr madwifi*
wget http://madwifi.otaku42.de/madwifi-cvs-current.tar.gz
tar -zxvf mad*.tgz
cd madwifi
make
make install
cd tools
make
make install
The very first time you do this, you may need to install sharutils (yum
install sharutils) to get uuencode and, after the make install, type
"modeprobe ath_pci".
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Steve
