RE: [Airo-linux-gen80211] too many airo.c's

[Tim C. <ti...@co...>]

Hi Ben

Here's the ll output. as you can probably see, this is 2.4.18-4. its from
the updates at RedHat: rpm info follows. from make xconfig, the I think that
the device name appears under both "Network device support" -> "Wireless LAN
(non-hamradio)" as "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards" and
"Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards". These descriptions imply
that these are different devices, but the documentation for the drivers says
that airo.c works for either pci or pc card and that you need airo_cs.c too
to support the pcmcia card.

The version in wireless has your email (I assume that it's yours) as
br...@us..., the pcmcia one as br...@al...

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[tim@workstar wireless]$ ll
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-4/drivers/net/pcmcia/airo.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       118547 May  2 22:36
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-4/drivers/net/pcmcia/airo.c

[tim@workstar wireless]$ ll
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-4/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       129098 Feb 25 19:38
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-4/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c

[tim@workstar wireless]$ rpm -qi kernel
Name        : kernel                       Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 2.4.18                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 4                             Build Date: Thu 02 May 2002
23:22:39 BST
Install date: Sat 08 Jun 2002 16:54:46 BST      Build Host:
daffy.perf.redhat.com
Group       : System Environment/Kernel     Source RPM:
kernel-2.4.18-4.src.rpm
Size        : 29670339                         License: GPL
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system).
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of
the Red Hat Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic
functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process
allocation, device input and output, etc.
--cut here--

tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Benjamin Reed [mailto:br...@ya...]
Sent: 19 June 2002 15:45
To: Tim Coote; air...@li...
Subject: Re: [Airo-linux-gen80211] too many airo.c's


Which version of the kernel sources are you using.  It
doesn't seem to be the case in 2.4.18...

ben
--- Tim Coote <ti...@co...> wrote:
> I've been struggling to configure a couple of
> aironet 350s into a simple ad
> hoc network. Digging around just now in an attempt
> to grab the latest
> drivers, rather than the ones that came with Redhat
> 7.3, which give me
> constant "got weird status 1000" messages in my log,
> I found that there are
> two different airo.c's in the the kernel: one in
> drivers/net/pcmcia/airo.c
> and one at drivers/net/wireless/airo.c
>
> Shouldn't this situation be rationalised - it
> doesn't seem to be in anyone's
> interest: the poor kernel configurator isn't even
> aware of it unless they
> stumble across it.
>
> I think that ones from here and the other from
> somewhere else (:-) ). which
> is the best to use - I enabled both, but I don't
> know which has loaded.
>
> tia
> tim