Re: [Madwifi-users] troubles compiling and inserting new modules

[Stefano C. <sc...@li...>]

L=C3=AC luned=C3=AC, 2004/11/01 alle 08:49, -0700, Sam Leffler ha scritto:
> On Monday 01 November 2004 01:43 am, Stefano Canepa wrote:
> > L=C3=AC sabato, 2004/10/30 alle 19:24, +0200, Stefano Canepa ha scritto=
:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >  I am trying to compile and use the new madwifi driver, I am using
> > > kernel 2.6.7 and at compile/link time I get many warning like:
> > > *** Warning: "ieee80211_beacon_update" [/home/sc/Sviluppo/madwifi/ath=
/
> > > ath_pci.k o] undefined!
> > >  If I go on using the generated ath_pci.ko I have the corresponding
> > > undefined symbol I /var/log/messages and the module does not install
> > > properly.
> > >  Could someone help me?
> > >
> > > TIA
> > > sc
> >
> > As nobody unswered me and I found a solution this is the way I compiled
> > succefully the new modules for my Netgear 511TIS.
> > 1) I had a 2.6.7 kernel and the /usr/src/linux directory contained the
> > respective source, I updated kernel source to 2.6.9
> > 2) I check out the madwifi source
> > 3) pathc them with the 2.6.8 patch
> > 4) ran make oldconfig on the kernel source
> > 5) used the install.sh script for 2.6 to include madwifi source into th=
e
> > kernel ones
> > 6) ran make config, to select madwifi driver as a module and change
> > other little configuration
> > 7) make; make modules; make modules_install; make install
> > 8) modified grub config
> > 9 reboot
> >
> > That's all.
> >
> > Now I have a new question, why this way worked and compiling into and
> > external source tree didn't work. I tried to update kernel source and
> > compile maadwifi from an esternal source tree but I didn't work. Why?
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> I have successfully built the driver from CVS with every released stable =
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> kernel available on kernel.org up to and including 2.6.9 (as of last week=
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> I have built it as separate modules and linked into the kernel source tre=
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> (using patches/2.6/install.sh).  Other than apparent regressions in the=20
> kernel seen as by complaints about undefined symbols everything has worke=
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> w/o ANY patches.
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> Note this is only for i386.
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> That is why noone (at least me) responds to posts of this sort.
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>  Sam

Sam,
	first of all my previuos email was not sent with the intent to be
polemical, I have simply seen that nobody unswered, I solved my problem
and whant to document. Now that I read again my email I see I could be
misunderstood.
	I continue not to understand why I and a friend of mine, who tried just
to help me, where unable to compile the driver correctly. When I did it
for kernel 2.6.7 and for the previous kernel everythink went ok as for
you and think many others.

Thanks for your help

Stefano

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