ORBIT-USER: Cannot Recompile madwifi on baseline-2.0

shruti singhal shruti20 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 7 09:46:04 EDT 2007


Hi Kishore.

It says no installation candidate. The cache search only shows
packages for kernel 2.6.21 and 2.6.22. Is there a way to get older
packages ?

Regards,

Shruti.

On 8/7/07, Kishore Ramachandran <kishore at winlab.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Hi Shruti:
>
> Try downloading the kernel headers for linux-2.6.18-6-686 (think it is
> "apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.18-6.686"). That should be a faster way
> to recompile the driver. Also, for the kernel source, what does apt-cache
> search say? Maybe you need to do an apt-get update first?
>
> regards,
> Kishore
>
>
>
> On 8/6/07, shruti singhal <shruti20 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi All.
> >
> > I have been trying to recompile madwifi but since it requires the
> > kernel source i  have been trying to install the kernel source
> > linux-2.6.18-6-686 on baseline-2.0 image. Running apt-get install
> > [kernel-source-version] says no installation candidate. I am not sure
> > if the repository lists is broken or there is some other problem.
> > It'll be a great if someone could help me with this problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Shruti Singhal
> >
>
>


-- 
Shruti Singhal



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