[Madwifi-users] Debugging Assistance(KUDZU)

[Bob Jones]

On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 22:44:47 -0700, sean bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> 
wrote:

> I just installed (and patched!) Fedora Core 2 Test 2...Quite a bit of
> hassle to get it in, but not bad for Beta...
>
> Anyway, they are running a 2.6.4 kernel variant(as always "enhanced" by
> RedHat).
>
> I can compile and build the driver objects with the following steps:
>
> 1.  Install Kernel Source RPM
> 2.  Copy /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-1.305/configs/kernel-2.6.4-i686.config
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.4-1.305/.config
> 3.  CVS checkout madwifi drivers.
> 4.  Build madwifi drivers with "sudo make"  Something needed that root
> can only access.
> 5   Install the madwifi drivers with "sudo make install"
>
> Now is where the fun begins...Fedora Core 1 worked great at this point
> with the 2.4 kernel that they are using.
>
> I reboot after step 5 and it appears that "kudzu" spins out of control
> and never finishes...I need kudzu for some reason, because my USB mouse
> never works without it running at startup.
>
> (snip)

'Can't help you with the wifi - but you may be able to get your mouse back 
by doing a " modprobe uhci-hcd ". If that works, put it into 
/etc/rc.d/rc.local, turn kudzu off, and reboot again.

Bob Jones