Re: [Madwifi-users] HEADSUP: WPA branch updated

[Sam L. <sa...@er...>]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 10:02 am, Matthias wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 09:20:49 -0700
>
> Sam Leffler <sa...@er...> wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 June 2004 06:11 am, Matthias wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:48:25 -0700
> > >
> > > i wanted to try the WPA branch now that its updated (i checked
> > > timestamps to make sure public cvs was already updated) and it compiles
> > > (with a LOT of warning), but then when loading the modules (i compiled
> > > from outside kernel tree by just doing make in the checked out
> > > directory, when patching the kernel by doing 'sh install.sh
> > > /usr/src/linux' it errors out completely) i get lots of undefined
> > > symbols.
> >
> > This is very confusing.  You did two different things but do not identify
> > what errors happened when.  You can build either "outside the kernel" by
> > referencing an existing kernel build or you statically compile the code
> > into a kernel.  For the latter you must do a make menuconfig or similar
> > and select the driver for inclusion in the build.
> >
> > I built the WPA branch with 2.4.26, and 2.6.0-2.6.5 both "in" and "out"
> > of the kernel.  I'm aware of one warning (I just noticed yesterday with
> > 2.6.4-52 from SuSE 9.1).  If you have compiler warnings then you have
> > something setup wrong.
>
> Ok, step by step explanation of what i did :)
>
> my /usr/src/linux is symlink to currently running kernel, if that matters.
> i checked out current cvs in /usr/src/mw. then i went into the new madwifi
> directory and did 'make'. the result of this procedure are all the warnings
> i pasted in my earlier mail, however there was no Error line, only those
> warnings. then i did 'make install' which copied the modules into my
> /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net. when modprobing them, i get all 'undefined
> symbol' in dmesg and ath_pci doesn't load.
>
> I don't know if that was the statically or only referencing (i guess the
> latter), but i hope you can see it from tha explanation above.
>
> And now a cut, what i'm explaining now is a different try which i did after
> everything above was experienced.
>
> i went into the patches/2.6 subdir and did sh install.sh /usr/src/linux.
> there was a small reject in Kconfig but i fixed that. then in make
> menuconfig i selected Atheros to be built as module and tried building a
> new kernel, but that failed horribly with big Error messages. Since the
> first try only produced warnings and no errors i discarded the new try and
> only explained the warnings from when doing 'make' in the checked out
> directory. Sorry if that was confusing.

This should all work. As I said before I've tested with 2.4.26 (and 2.4.25) 
and 2.6.0-2.6.4-52.  I may have tried 2.6.6 but can't recall.  In general I 
do not run patched or variant kernels and I rarely try the bleeding-edge 
kernels.  Sounds like something has changed that affects building.

	Sam