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mlbuser

Post subject: R5E50 madwifi?

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 7:34 pm

Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:35 am

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Does R5E50 have the madwifi drivers? R5D1 had them and I was happily running a dlink wireless card, but after the upgrade I can't modprobe ath_pci any longer.

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mlbuser

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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:31 am

Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:35 am

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I'm going to assume no madwifi drivers in this release.

I need to build the madwifi kernel modules, but I can't build the them as the kernel source tree isn't complete enough to build modules. I tried to apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.18
kernel-source-2.6.18-chw
kernel-source-2.6.18-chw-13
kernel-source-2.6.18-chw-13-i686

No joy.

Can someone help me get the compatible kernel source (well just need the headers/Makefiles for building modules) for R5E50?

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tjc

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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:37 am

Joined: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:00 am

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Location: Arlington, MA

Try it without the "-chw".

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tophee

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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:11 am

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Location: London, UK

I'm glad I saw this before I thought about upgrading. Let us (... well me) know how you get on.

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mlbuser

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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:05 pm

Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:35 am

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Well the kernel sources are at:

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18

But this doesn't help much as they don't exactly match the R5E50 kernel. The easiest way to proceed is to get the missing pieces in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13 (which come with R5E50) so we can build modules.

root@mythbox:/usr/src/modules/madwifi# make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... ok.
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/madwifi modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13'

I'd have to make my own kernel to use this source tree to compile madwifi, I'm not interested in going down that path.

I may go back to R5D1 if I can figure out how to get back.

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mlbuser

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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:19 pm

Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:35 am

Posts: 85

This worked:

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13

ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/Makefile .
ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/arch .
ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/scripts .

m-a prepare
m-a a-i madwifi

modprobe ath_pci

Rebooted and wireless is back!

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tjc

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Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:48 pm

Joined: Thu Mar 25, 2004 11:00 am

Posts: 9551

Location: Arlington, MA

I'm pretty sure those are already there in R5E50...

Code:

root@black2:~# ls -al /usr/src/linux*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src    27 Dec 23 18:58 /usr/src/linux -> linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13:
total 104
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 .
drwxrwsr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 17 00:39 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 68185 Dec  4 02:32 .config
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 block
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root  4096 Dec  4 23:20 include
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    27 Dec  4 03:34 linux-headers.revision
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 security
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 sound
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 usr

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dwaine

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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:33 am

Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:46 am

Posts: 135

tjc wrote:

I'm pretty sure those are already there in R5E50...

Code:

root@black2:~# ls -al /usr/src/linux*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root src    27 Dec 23 18:58 /usr/src/linux -> linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13:
total 104
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 .
drwxrwsr-x  6 root root  4096 Dec 17 00:39 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 68185 Dec  4 02:32 .config
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 block
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root  4096 Dec  4 23:20 include
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    27 Dec  4 03:34 linux-headers.revision
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 security
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 sound
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec  4 22:31 usr

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13

ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/Makefile .
ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/arch .
ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/scripts .

m-a prepare
m-a a-i madwifi

modprobe ath_pci

Rebooted and wireless is back!

I had to do the samething to get v4l-cvs to compile.

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brianary

Post subject: Um, OK

Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 2:12 pm

Joined: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:50 pm

Posts: 4

dwaine wrote:

Seeing as how my network connection doesn't work, how can I "apt-get install"?

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brianary

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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:33 pm

Joined: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:50 pm

Posts: 4

mlbuser wrote:

OK, hooked up a bridge.

What the hell is m-a?
When I run "make", I get:

Code:

scripts/Makefile.build:17: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13/scripts/basic/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13/scripts/basic/Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `include/config/auto.conf', needed by `include/config/kernel.release'. Stop.

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mlbuser

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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:46 pm

Joined: Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:35 am

Posts: 85

Quote:

What the hell is m-a?
When I run "make", I get:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi

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brianary

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Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:10 pm

Joined: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:50 pm

Posts: 4

mlbuser wrote:

Quote:

What the hell is m-a?
When I run "make", I get:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifi

w00t!

Works a treat! Thanks!

Now I just have to see about the resolution for my 720p screen, and getting my remote to work again.

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dwaine

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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:00 am

Joined: Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:46 am

Posts: 135

Add this symlink to the list. It will get rid of this message and a couple of modules will have their proper symbols.

ln -s ../linux-headers-2.6.18-3-686/Module.symvers

It will get rid of this situation....

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-chw-13/build SUBDIRS=/home/mythtv/v4l-dvb-e37679b39df8/v4l modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-chw-13/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

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Rala

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Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:51 pm

Joined: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:48 pm

Posts: 14

Brilliant,

This worked for me, the only exception is 2.6.18-3-686 did not exist, instead I used 4-686 and made the necessary changes to the symlinks mentioned

Thanks much for getting me on the right foot.

mlbuser wrote:

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