Re: problem installing mac80211 on Fedora Core 7

[Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>]

Benjamin Bryant wrote:

> I'm getting the following output:
> 
> # make patch_kernel
> Patching from compatible/ to /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3228.fc7/source/:
> + Replaced 57 files.
> Checking for required kernel build updates...
> - checking net/Kconfig and net/Makefile...
> - checking net/core/Makefile for old 'wireless'...
> - checking net/core/dev.c for wireless_proc_init vs. wext_proc_init...
> grep: /lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3228.fc7/source/net/core/dev.c: No such

Hi -

The kernel-devel package doesn't include all the kernel sources, just
include files and so on.  You need the kernel SRPM installed to get all
the c source files.

Since Fedora kernels already have a recent mac80211 in them, depending
on what you want to achieve you may be better off either

 - skipping trying to cook mac80211 at all (I guess this is from iwlwifi)

 - using the latest Fedora development kernel with

     yum --enablerepo development update kernel

 - or using the wireless-dev git with

git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git

and copying over /boot/config-<something> as .config in there so you
will be working with the most recent mac80211 all the time.

-Andy