madwifi on PPC

[Michael A. Peters]

On 03/06/2005 02:45:37 PM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319
> 
> That's the madwifi kernel driver that has been proposed at  
> rpm.livna.org

I should add for anyone who does wants to try my x86 experiences -

kudzu will detect the card, but don't let it configure it - kudzu  
doesn't do wifi yet. Tell it to ignore the card.

I did need to add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf manually:
alias ath0 ath_pci

After that, it configures and works either through the "Network" System  
Setting tool, or through the the Network Manager tool (I tried both).

I did not try it with WEP though.

when yum pulls in a new kernel, you can rebuild the driver before  
booting into the new kernel with (on x86 anyway) -

rpmbuild -bb kernel-module-madwifi.spec --target "`uname -m`" \
--define 'kernel $1'

(where $1 is the new kernel version)


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