Re: [Madwifi-users] Re: [Madwifi-devel] any hope of madwifi on ppc linux?

[Matt F. <mat...@cl...>]

=2E.. and I said:
> Quoting Tim Shepard (sh...@al...):
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>> I have an Apple powerbook running linux-2.6.13.=20
>> (The system is Debian/sarge, with gcc version 3.3.5.)
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>> When I try to build madwifi, it fails trying to unpack the ath_hal.=20
>> I've included the output from running make below.
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>> Is there any hope of my using an atheros cardbus card so I can have=20
>> wireless from my mac while running linux?  (Apparently there is no=20
>> hope of getting a linux driver for the builtin broadcom wireless card.)
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>> I see that there are some files for powerpc in madwifi/hal/public but=20
>> they don't seem to be the right thing for Linux on a mac.
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>> If this is supposed to work, what am I doing wrong?
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> Hi.
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> It _is_ supposed to work. You need to set the TARGET environment variable=
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> so that it builds for the right architecture.
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> Have a look in the hal dir to see what HALs are available.
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Whoops, I sent this to the wrong list.

Time for bed.

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Cheers,

Matt Foster <mat...@cl...>
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