Bug 141631 – madwifi-ng-0.9.1 doesn't build with linux-2.6.18-rc2

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Thomas Meyer 2006-07-24 14:39:41 UTC]

build fails with an error message, that i now longer get because i fixed it in this way:

1.) the file kernelversion.c must include "<linux/utsrelease.h>".
2.) the file include/compat.h must not define the "roundup" macro.
3.) the file net80211/ieee80211_linux.c must include "<linux/proc_fs.h>".

After these changes the madwifi-ng driver compiles succesfully against linux-2.6.18-rc2.

[Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-07-24 14:42:27 UTC]

can you please give us a patch for the source and verify that it works with older kernels, too?

you get a patch that way:

cp madwifi madwifie.orig -R
cd madwifi
(make your changes)
cd ..
diff -Nurp madwifi.orig madwifi > patch

[Comment 2 Thomas Meyer 2006-07-24 15:12:20 UTC]

Created attachment 92649 [details, diff]
patch to make madwifi compile against >=2.6.18-rc2

i'm sure: this patch won't work for older kernels. some ifdef magic is required.

[Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2006-07-26 11:42:53 UTC]

I have added the rc for 0.9.2 and it builds with 2.6.18.

Currently p.masked but the final 0.9.2 will not be p.masked.