[ltp] Madwifi drivers for Atheros wireless (e.g. T40p) work

[Neil Weisenfeld]

Sorry, Alex, I did not try it with anything but my 2.4.22 kernel.  I did
have to hack the Makefiles a tiny bit because my kernel was actually
called 2.4.21rc8-ac1 and the "rc8" without a dash before it was screwing
things up.

HOWEVER, I wouldn't go copying modversions.h around.  The modversions
stuff has this weird series of conditional includes.  If you break that,
you're going to end up with drivers that don't load because they either
have module version symbols when they shouldn't or vice-versa.

I would look in the top-level Makefile.inc and see how the KERNEL_PATH
is being inferred and figure out if that might be getting screwed up
somehow.

Good luck,
Neil



On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 03:32, Alexander Gran wrote:
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> Did you try to compile it under a 2.6.0 Kernel?
> If I try, it complains about a missing modversions.h (it searches in 
> include/linux/). When I copy modversions.h into include/linux/, the if_ieee* 
> files generate screens of error messages..
> 
> Any idea??
> 
> Alex
> 
> Am Montag, 4. August 2003 16:53 schrieb Neil Weisenfeld:
> > As of sometime this weekend, a new release (well, first a failed one,
> > then a better one) of these drivers came out.  They now seem to work
> > well with my T40p.  Some quirks in what is reported by the driver, so
> > that they gnome-wireless-applet doesn't show signal strength and
> > iwconfig shows TxPower as "off".  However, the driver works well enough
> > to use, it seems.
> >
> > See:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi
> >
> >
> > Neil
> 
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