Re: compat-wireless and DKMS

[Jeremy Wolcott <jeremy.wolcott@gmail.com>]

Oh, cool.  Is that in the Jaunty repositories?  The latest kernel 
release I'm seeing (with -proposed and -backports enabled) is 2.6.28-15...

Thanks,

-Jeremy

Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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