Re: Orinoco Driver Patch - Question
Hi Seneca,
I pretty much went through your systematic approach. I got stuck at
point 5, and my errors are listed below.
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 14:11:45 -0400, Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2004 at 12:51:24PM +0100, Werner Otto wrote:
> > I am currently trying to get airodump to work with my Orinoco Gold
> > wireless card.
> >
> > I need to patch my driver to get 'Monitor' mode enabled on it.
> >
> > I have been reading some docs and am still missing a few points, maybe
> > because I haven't done it before, no excuse though :-)
> >
> > I have copied my patch to /lib/modules/2.6.8-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
> >
> > ls - listing
> [...modules...]
> > my command: patch -p0 < orinoco-0.13b-patched.diff
> > can't find file to patch at input line 4
> [...]
> > At this stage I don't have a clue what to due.... I have tried -p1 and
> > -p4 as mentioned in the man pages, but didn't work.
> >
> > What am I missing?
>
> The kernel source. Patches are applied to the kernel source, not the
> compiled modules. I think you also may have the wrong patch for the
> kernel. 2.6.8 would use the orinoco-0.13e patch.
>
> What you should probably do is:
> 0) read documentation about building kernels
> 1) download the kernel source
> 2) install libc6-dev, libncurses5-dev, gcc, g++, make
> 3) copy the patch to $SRCDIR/drivers/net/wireless
> 4) cd $SRCDIR/drivers/net/wireless
> 5) patch -p1 <orinoco-0.13e-patch.diff
> 6) cd $SRCDIR
> 7) make menuconfig
> 8) make
> 9) make modules_install
> 10) copy the kernel to its destination
> 11) configure bootloader
> 12) reboot and test
>
> --
> Seneca
> seneca-cunningham@rogers.com
>
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