latest update breaks a MadWifi snapshot

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 3 17:47:33 UTC 2008


Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:42:34AM -0400, Jim wrote:
>
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>> Steven I Usdansky wrote:
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>>> --- On Wed, 7/2/08, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>  
>>>       
>>>> From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
>>>> Subject: latest update breaks a MadWifi snapshot
>>>>         
>
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>>>> if this would merit a RedHat report, MadWifi report or
>>>> perhaps an email
>>>> to Mr. Leffler as these later kernels in Ubuntu's alpha
>>>> and Fedora's
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>>>>         
>
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>>> What's the error? Perhaps related to http://madwifi.org/ticket/2022 ?
>>>
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>> If you updated your kernel, and rebooted to a new kernel then your going 
>> to have to recompile madwifi.
>> I get all my hardware running then I don't update my kernel anymore.
>>     
>
> Thanks Jim, but in this case, it's a different sort of problem.  I am
> aware that it has to be recompiled with each kernel update, which I do.
>
> However, this last particular rawhide update didn't allow me to compile
> it--instead it errored out. I'm going to try the patch supplied earlier
> though, and see if it fixes the issue. 
>
> My rawhide install is more for fun and testing--for work, I use my F9
> install and am careful what I update. 
>
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>
>   
I don't how your box is set up, But I have a eeePC 7200 that has that 
same ar5007 chipset and the driver that was supplied by FC9 wouldn't 
work so I had to download the madwifi-nr-r3366+ar5007.tar.gz and compile.
What setup did you use ?





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