Madwifi on FC6

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Thu Oct 26 22:04:07 UTC 2006


Timo Hirt wrote:
>> I can't find a bugzilla entry on this. Do you have the number?  
> Here the link to the bugzilla entry:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941
> 
>> As far
>> as I can tell, I'm running the i686 kernel:
>>
>> Linux sds-desk.sterndata.com 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16
>> 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>
>> # rpm -qa |grep kernel
>> kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>> kernel-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>> kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
>>
>> # ll /usr/src/kernels
>> total 4
>> drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 Oct 26 00:01 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-i686
>>
>> I did not compile the kernel myself, but I am compiling madwifi from source.
>>
>>
>>   
> To solve the problem backup grub.conf and menu.lst.
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps kernel
> 
> yum install kernel.i686
> 
> Then copy the backed up grub.conf and menu.lst back to the /boot/grub
> directory.
> I fixed it that way then i was able to complie madwifi drivers.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thanks, Timo. That did the trick.

-- 

  Steve




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