compat-wireless and DKMS

compat-wireless and DKMS

[Jeremy Wolcott]

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

Re: compat-wireless and DKMS

[Tim Gardner]

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
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com

Re: compat-wireless and DKMS

[Jeremy Wolcott]

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
>> -- 
>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe 
>> linux-wireless" in
>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
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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