Chicken and egg madwifi question

[Gordon Charrick]

Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
It looks like I'm missing the macros for kernel module building because 
I still get the same error. I've posted a request on the atrpms mail list.