Chicken and egg madwifi question

Robin Mordasiewicz robin at bullseye.tv
Sun Oct 2 04:20:55 UTC 2005


On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Gordon Charrick wrote:

> I'm running fc3 on my computer and almost ready to upgrade to fc4. I have a 
> wireless card using madwifi from atrpms.net. If I upgrade to fc4, I'll be 
> running 2.6.11-1.1369. Axel's web site only has a prebuilt module for the 
> latest 2.6.12 kernels and I haven't been able to find any old modules on the 
> net. Trying to build the module using the source rpm gets me this:
>
> $ rpmbuild -bb madwifi-0.9.4.12-16.rhfc4.at.spec
> error: line 1: Unknown tag: %kmdl madwifi
>
>
> So, my choices are the following:
>
> 1. Figure out how to build the module from the source rpm. Anyone know what 
> I'm missing to build it?

It has been a while since I had this same problem with building atrpms 
from srpm. I thinks you need the rpm from 
http://atrpms.net/dist/common/atrpms/
I am not sure, but try installing that before you rebuild one of his 
SRPMS.





More information about the fedora-list mailing list