latest update breaks a MadWifi snapshot

Steven I Usdansky usdanskys at rocketmail.com
Thu Jul 3 10:44:51 UTC 2008


--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> (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.)
> 
What's the error? Perhaps related to http://madwifi.org/ticket/2022 ?


      




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