[Madwifi-users] modules -- WPA branch updated

[Alvin O. <alvin@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya sam 

sure am glad i kept this old posting of yours :-) yippie ...

	searching for "madwifi rwlock_is_locked" doesn't give
	a good hint for the solution

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Sam Leffler wrote:

> > ath_hal: module license 'Proprietary' taints kernel.
> > ath_hal: 0.9.9.12
> > wlan: Unknown symbol rwlock_is_locked
> 
> If you look in net80211/ieee80211_linux.h you will find references to 
> rwlock_is_locked that are dependent on whether your kernel is configured with 
> preemption or for SMP use.  Wether or not they are defined appears to change 
> from kernel version to kernel version so you get this complaint.  Try 
> removing/defeating the locking assertion macros.

i intrepretation of  "defeating" the SMP definitions, i just kept the line:

	#define IEEE80211_NODE_LOCK_ASSERT(_ic)

( i'm assuming i did it right, bcause, the wpa branch now compiles
( and seems to properly loads, and the wg311 is still working as an AP
	- next step to do the wpa stuff - more fun later -
	
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for other module problems i ran across

http://www.linux-wireless.org/Wireless/Install-HOWTO/Drivers/madwifi/madwifi.module.problems.txt

and i created another tar ball of what works for me

with sample kernel config files for
	linux-2.4.26 and linux-2.6.6 and linux-2.6.7

http://www.linux-wireless.org/Wireless/Install-HOWTO/Drivers/madwifi

c ya
alvin