From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
To: Jeremy Wolcott <jeremy.wolcott@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: compat-wireless and DKMS
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A9E9AEE.4060409@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9E7FBE.6060705@gmail.com>
Jeremy Wolcott wrote:
> Has anybody tried to get compat-wireless working with DKMS? This would
> be really handy for me since I run Ubuntu and they have been pushing
> kernel updates pretty frequently lately, but I need the newest
> compat-wireless to run my Atheros card in master mode via ath5k...
>
> I tried for quite a while today and the build just won't work. (The
> 'make clean' step returns error 2, and then the build itself fails with
> "(directory it's building in) is a directory. Stop.") I think it's
> because the Makefile for compat-wireless uses the PWD environment
> variable, but I'm not well-versed enough in Makefiles to fix it up so
> that it'll work from a different directory (DKMS builds modules in
> /var/lib/dkms/MODULE_NAME/VERSION/build instead of wherever I unpacked
> the source).
>
> Any advice would be appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Jeremy
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I've been packaging compat-wireless in linux-backports-modules-2.6.31 on
a semi-spasmodic basis. Current version contains wireless-testing
master-2009-09-01.
rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-02 16:18 UTC|newest]
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2009-09-02 14:22 compat-wireless and DKMS Jeremy Wolcott
2009-09-02 16:18 ` Tim Gardner [this message]
2009-09-02 17:11 ` Jeremy Wolcott
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