Re: linux-wlan-ng driver
Baan Zoltan <banan@hirosima.martos.bme.hu> writes:
> Has anyone ever tried to compile linux-wlan-ng driver for wireless cards
> with the 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' method?
> Because i've decided to do it, but i run into some trouble with it.
>
> Any help you can offer is great.
Knowing very little about linux-wlan-ng (but speaking as the
lm-sensors maintainer), that's almost certainly the wrong thing to
do. The various modules-source packages are designed to be used in
combination with kernel-package, and by and large work with the
conventions described in
/usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.modules. If you really insist on
doing things by hand, a close-to-correct invocation is going to look
like
fakeroot debian/rules kdist-image KVERS=2.4.18 \
KSRC=/usr/src/linux APPEND_TO_VERSION=-686
Reading /usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng/README.Debian, there is no
supported 'fakeroot debian/rules binary' method to build it. Getting
the source (as suggested in README.Debian) and running 'debian/rules
binary' will probably successfully build the user-space utilities but
not the kernel modules, which isn't what you want at all.
Kernel modules are subtle beasts. It kind of sucks that there's not a
convenient magic automated way for every possible pair of (kernel,
module source) to get built, but there isn't. The most-supported way
to build extra kernel modules is using kernel-package; if you're going
to stray from this route, *read the package's documentation* before
blindly poking at things.
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