Re: iwlwifi 1.2.23 vs. kernel 2.6.23.13

[Mario Guenterberg <mg@havelsoft.com>]

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On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:54:09AM -0800, Chatre, Reinette wrote:
> On , Mario Guenterberg [mg@havelsoft.com]  wrote:
> 
> > I has tried to compile the latest stable kernel (2.6.23.13) with the
> > iwlwifi-1.2.23 driver and the mac80211-10.0.4 framework. I has
> > patched the kernel source tree and when I start menuconfig, it
> > was fine.
> > If I started to run make, nothing seems to be wrong, but the iwl3945
> > module was not build. 
> 
> At this point the new mac80211 module should be built. There is no
> iwl3945 in the 2.6.23 kernel so it will not be built as part of this
> (the kernel build) step. After you built mac80211 in the kernel you need
> to follow the installation instructions of iwl3945 to built it as a
> separate module outside the kernel. Details can be found in the INSTALL
> file that came with iwlwifi-1.2.23.

The built as external module works fine, but I wonder why the
patched kernel sources not works. If I use the old iwl3945-1.1.19
with the 2.6.23.13 tree, the built process works in the kernel.

I see the patch_kernel script in 1.2.23 have the deprecated state.
But when I do the patch_kernel after a make in the 1.2.23 source tree,
the files are in the kernel source tree under driver/net/wireless
including Kconfig and Makefile. 
But the module wasn't built. This makes me wonder...

Thanks
Mario

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