[Voyage-linux] Building of Madwifi and Hostap drivers

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Hi Pablo,

Voyage 0.2 development has been stopped.  All development work goes to 0.3.

Unfortunately, I am in the middle in preparing an etch version of 
voyage.  Before etch-based voyage comes out, I may still build a 
sarge-based voyage in form of voyage-current.tar.gz.

No need to use 0.4.9.  Jouni said in the hostap list that you should use 
the one in the latest official kernel.  The 0.4.9 version is for old 
kernels.

To compile a madwifi as module package, install
    
http://www.voyage.hk/dists/unstable/madwifi/madwifi-ng-source_0.svnr1611.20060527-1_all.deb
The source tar ball will be in /usr/src.  Uncompress it and the source 
code will be in /usr/src/modules/madwifi-ng.  Go to voyage kernel 
directory, use make-kpkg with "module_image" flag to build.  

Punky

Pablo Osuna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just recently installed Voyage 2.0 (Voyage-current) from
> http://www.voyage.hk/download/voyage/voyage-current.tar.gz
>
> I would like to install newest Madwifi drivers:
> http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-ng/madwifi-ng-r1611-20060528.tar.gz
>
> These drivers are from the 28th of May and contain the very first
> Madwifi release (v0.9.0) and a new hal version (0.9.17.0)
> I have seen in
> http://alpha.voyage.hk/contrib/punkytse/test-kernel/madwifi-ng-modules-2.6.15-486-voyage_0.svnr1611.20060527-1+3.0-1_i386.deb
> that latest madwifi drivers are available in a package. Is it possible
> to use this modules with Voyage 2.0 or I need to install the new kernel
> image 3.0?
>
> Related to hostap I have seen:
>
> voyage:/etc# dmesg | grep hostap
> hostap_pci: 0.4.4-kernel (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
>
> What should I do if I want to upgrade to 0.4.9 hostap version?:
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases/hostap-driver-0.4.9.tar.gz
> I have not seen any package related to hostap. Do I have to do that
> manually?
>
> I know how to build the modules with kernel sources and insert them
> manually in /lib/modules but would like to learn how to build the
> package in order to have recent modules in a Debian way. I could not
> find in the Wiki any information related to this.
>
> Sorry if these questions are newbie ones :)
>
> Regards:
>
> Pablo
>
>
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