[ATrpms-users] Re: RHEL4 building ipw2100

[Axel Thimm]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 11:41:50AM +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> Hi Axel,
>    thanks for your response, however for some reason I could not 
> rebuild the driver using your ieee80211 packages
> even if i followed the cleanup listed in the readme file. Still 
> everytime I would load the module, a spew of errors.

You don't need to perform any extra actions.

> I needed to built the driver against ieee80211-1.1.6 built and installed 
> from the tarball, I suspected perhaps rpm
> stripping, even switching that off, did not work. Sounds ridicuolus, but 
> I include the ieee80211 tar ball now in my srpm,
> seems the olf way I can build modules reliably.

Why did you need to rebuild ipw2100 at all? Aren't the ATrpms packages
in testing working? If not, then perhaps that the same issue?

> I know you have not experienced the same issues as I have, thought it 
> might be useful noting however.
> 
> Axel Thimm wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:22:58PM +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> >>  I am curious if the ipw2100 modules are built against a stock
> >>RHEL4 Kernel with updated ieee80211 modules/headers
> >It depends on which version you are looking at. Latest testing
> >versions (x.y.z for z != 0) are built as you describe.
> >>or is there something else that is modified?
> >No, additional ieee80211 modules/headers is all that is needed.

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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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