kmod-madwifi--where is the update?

[Temlakos]

Adam Hough wrote:
> 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
>>
>>     
Could you please write a how-to for that? I have an rpm build 
environment set up--I used it to build my own rpm's from Sun's Java 
binary. (Thanks, Michael Peters.) Does rpm.livna.org have a set of 
instructions on how to rebuild a module for any kernel?

TIA.

Temlakos