Re: [Madwifi-users] Tr: error in compliling madwifi

[Pavel R. <pr...@gn...>]

Hello!

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 19:52 +0200, chikh omar wrote:
> > then when i do make madwifi i got this error:
> > 
> > In file included from
> >
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/modversions.h:132,
> >                  from
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/module.h:21,
> >                  from if_ath_pci.c:47:
> >
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/modules/i386_ksyms.ver:92:1:
> > "EISA_bus" redefined
> > In file included from
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/prefetch.h:13,
> >                  from
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/list.h:6,
> >                  from
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/linux/module.h:12,
> >                  from if_ath_pci.c:47:
> >
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-8/include/asm/processor.h:267:1:
> > this is the location of the previous definition

That's some internal inconsistency in the kernel.  MadWifi doesn't do
anything EISA specific.  Search on Google for "EISA_bus redefined" shows
that many other drivers cannot be compiled against the 2.4.20-8 kernel.

I suggest that you upgrade to the latest kernel from Fedora Legacy.
It's a good idea for other reasons too.

> > cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> > if_ath_pci.c: In function `ath_pci_probe':
> > if_ath_pci.c:179: warning: implicit declaration of
> > function `alloc_netdev'
> > if_ath_pci.c:179: warning: assignment makes pointer
> > from integer without a cast

I have fixed it in Subversion.

You'll still encounter a problem compiling wlan_ccmp, but you can remove
it from net80211/Makefile if you don't need CCMP encryption.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin