madwifi

[Rick Johnson]

Sorry for continuing the top-post :-/

I've been trying to get madwifi working as well. I've discovered that 
there's a Makefile patch which seems to resolve the dependancy of the 
vmlinux being present within the build folder by converting the Makefile 
to use the built-in kernel tools vs. hacked together tools. However - 
the resulting driver will constantly segfault when it attempts to load.

Note the patch here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=895340&group_id=82936&atid=567755

In the past, I attempted to build a vmlinux and then compile the driver, 
however the driver did not load. This was probably 2 weeks ago, however, 
and the CVS version has probably since been updated.

Given that someone w/ the same 802.11g card has gotten it to work, there 
is some hope yet.

-Rick

Paul Bender wrote:

> I have been using the CVS version of the driver with 2.6 for awhile, and 
> it appears to work fine. However, it does require vmlinux in order to 
> complete its compilation process.
> 
> When the kernel is built, vmlinux is created. I believe that the Fedora 
> 2.6 kernel RPMs package vmlinux in the kernel-debuginfo RPM. Therefore, 
> you can get vmlinux for your running kernel by rebuilding the kernel 
> using the kernel-source RPM with the kernel config file in the boot 
> directory, or by installing the kernel-debuginfo RPM.
> 
> Personally, I have been rebuilding the kernel from the kernel-source 
> RPM, since kernel-debuginfo is so large.
> 
> Satish Balay wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Parrish M Myers wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been searching all over the internet and can't seem to get the
>>> madwifi driver for my DWL-G650 wifi card to compile.  Has anyone had
>>> success compiling the cvs version of madwifi under Core 2 test 1? 
>>> Everytime I try the build process complains about not finding
>>> '/lib/modules/2.6.3-1.96/build/vmlinux'... Is this not included with
>>> the kernel source?  Isin't this driver suppose to work with a 2.6
>>> kernel?
>>
>>
>>
>> I've attempted it - but encountered similar errors. I suspect madwif
>> needs some updates to work with 2.6
> 
> 
> 


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