ipw3945 compile problems with latest kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6

[Brian Millett]

Andy Green wrote:
> Brian Millett wrote:
>> This is not the config.h problem
>>
>> I'm trying to compile the ipw3945-1.1.0 from intel and I get the
>> following "too few arguments to function ‘ieee80211_tx_frame’" errors.
>> I thought that the latest kernels didn't need the ieee80211 patches?
>>
>> Any ideas that are relevant?
> 
> I had this problem, I seem to recall the underlying issue is that the
> wrong version of the ieee80211 API is being chosen by the makefile
> somehow.  Looks like I worked around it by just after the Makefile line
> that says (line 90 by my reckoning)
> 
> IEEE80211_API := $(shell sed -ne
> "s:\#define.*IEEE80211_API_VERSION[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\).*:\1:p"
> $(IEEE80211_PATH)net/ieee80211.h)
> 
> destroying its wrongly computed version by adding this:
> 
> IEEE80211_API := 2
> 
> -Andy
> 

Thanks Andy

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