[Voyage-linux] madwifi-ng drivers

[Punky Tse]

Hi Vytautas,

Yes, like what Client say, you need to take out the Atheros option 
(CONFIG_ATH*) from .config.  Then it should be fine. 

The next kernel 2.0-8 will not contain madwifi-old source.

- Punky

Clint Ricker wrote:
> There isn't a need.  Do a make config on the kernel, take out any 
> options to build wireless drivers for Atheros, and then run a make 
> clean and then make.  The problem is that some of the headers are 
> getting picked up by Madwifi-NG out of the kernel source tree; if you 
> do this, it should compile fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Clint
>
> Vytautas wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>   I am trying to compile madwifi-ng driver modules to use with the
>> voyage linux.
>>   For this first of all I've built custom kernel (because I needed some
>> other 3rd party modules as well). The kernel was built following the
>> instructions in the voyage linux wiki site (I got the .deb, installed
>> it, extracted, applied the config from the voyage site and created
>> kernel image .deb). When I tried compiling madwifi-ng for the sources of
>> the kernel I built, i got following error message:
>>
>>   CC [M]  /usr/src/madwifi-ng-r1416-20060126/ath_hal/ah_osdep.o
>> make[3]: *** No rule to make target
>> `/usr/src/madwifi-ng-r1416-20060126/ath_hal/hal.c', needed by
>> `/usr/src/madwifi-ng-r1416-20060126/ath_hal/hal.o'.  Stop.
>> make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/madwifi-ng-r1416-20060126/ath_hal] 
>> Error 2
>>
>> I think the error message is due to the madwifi-old patches applied to
>> the voyage kernel.
>> Trying to compile the madwifi-ng drivers for the stock linux kernel
>> worked fine.
>> My question is: what patches (besides madwifi-old) are applied to the
>> voyage kernel and maybe they are put somewhere to download. If not,
>> maybe someone knows which version (exactly) of madwifi-old was used when
>> patching 2.6.15 voyage kernel (so that I could reverse-patch the 
>> kernel :) )
>> Anyone who has tried to compile madwifi-ng drivers on voyage kernels pls
>> share your experiences ;)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vytautas
>>
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