kmod-madwifi--where is the update?

[Adam Hough]

This is why I have pulled down a nightly snapshot of the madawifi-ng
driver and build my own rpm using the spec file from the livna rpms. 

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:49 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Temlakos schrieb:
> > Why hasn't Livna pushed an update of kmod-madwifi for the latest kernel 
> > update? I can't run a laptop without madwifi (well, I can, but I 
> > wouldn't have any network access without plugging in a hard wire). I've 
> > waited for three days for Livna to push that update and they haven't 
> > done it. What goes on?
> 
> The current version doesn't build on 2.6.20. Upstream afaik promised a
> new version that is compatible to 2.6.20 for yesterday -- but it's not
> there yet afaik. Patches that are of a small size that make it work
> would be appreciated, but maybe just waiting for 0.9.3 to come out might
> be easier now.
> 
> <political>BTW, this is one of the reasons why external kernel-modules
> suck.<missionaring>Prefer hardware that is supported by
> in-kernel-drivers!</missionaring></political>
> 
> Cu
> thl
> 
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