latest update breaks a MadWifi snapshot

[Jim]

Steven I Usdansky wrote:
> --- On Wed, 7/2/08, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>> From: Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>
>> Subject: latest update breaks a MadWifi snapshot
>> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
>> Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 9:47 PM
>> I'm simply not sure where to report this.
>>
>> Sam Leffler made a snapshot for MadWifi that supports the
>> (in)famous
>> AR5007EG card.  The latest snapshot, from June, now
>> supports 64 bit as
>> well. 
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>> Livna-testing even has an rpm for it (for Fedora 9, the rpm
>> isn't built
>> against the Rawhide kernels).
>>
>> Ubuntu's Intrepid also broke it, though someone
>> submitted a patch for
>> that.  
>> I'm wondering if, especially as the Rawhide kernels
>> change so rapidly,
>> if this would merit a RedHat report, MadWifi report or
>> perhaps an email
>> to Mr. Leffler as these later kernels in Ubuntu's alpha
>> and Fedora's
>> rawhide both break it. 
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>> (The error is in compiling the driver.)  
>>
>> It works with every non-alpha distribution that I've
>> tried and heard
>> about. 
>>
>> Thanks for any input.  I haven't seen any other mention
>> of this error on
>> the MadWifi site, or even on google, so perhaps I'm the
>> lucky first.  
>>
>> (It's a different error than the one found in the
>> Ubuntu alpha.)
>>
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> What's the error? Perhaps related to http://madwifi.org/ticket/2022 ?
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If you updated your kernel, and rebooted to a new kernel then your going 
to have to recompile madwifi.
I get all my hardware running then I don't update my kernel anymore.