[ATrpms-users] hostap-driver and fc4

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 11:41:54PM +1000, Jin Kee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been trying fruitlessly to compile hostap-driver on my fedora
> core 4 laptop (ibm thinkpad t22). my kernel is 2.6.16-1.2069_FC4-i686
> 
> The kernel setup I'm using is the compiled in cardbus driver not the
> pcmcia_cs module. At the moment I'm lothe to recompile the kernel as
> that would stop me from getting official kernel updates from redhat.
> 
> anyway after adding atrpms to yum as a repos I got this

> Error: Missing Dependency: hostap-kmdl-0.4.7-11.rhfc4.at is needed by
> package hostap-driver
> 
> 
> The hostap-kmdl package hasn't been seen since fc3. Can it be recompiled?

It was built for FC4 before FC4 went 2.6.16.

> I also tried compiling the hostap-driver package from source, but it
> throws out a lot of warnings about hostap_cs.o being unable to resolve
> a lot of symbols:

See here:

http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=790

It's is what you see, too. If you like, you can ask upstream what to
do with 2.6.16. Maybe one should use the development releases 5.x, but
not w/o upstream approving, maybe they are to experimental.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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