[orbit-user] Problem in compiling madwifi driver

[Mesut Ali Ergin]

Hi Puneet,

The image named 'baseline-dev' should have all you need to build
madwifi sources.

Best,

--
MAE

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Thierry Rakotoarivelo
<Thierry.Rakotoarivelo at nicta.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Puneet,
>
> If the kernel headers + building tools are not available for your kernel
> version through apt-get,  you can also find them here:
>
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
>
> (as direct download + install with 'dpkg', or add the relevant entry in your
> '/etc/apt/sources.list' file).
>
> I think that the 'repository1' machine at Winlab also have mirror of these
> packages for the kernel version used in the baseline images.
>
> However I am not sure about the exact server+path you should add to your
> '/etc/apt/sources.list' file to access them. Maybe you could have a look at
> the content of sources.list on other Winlab hosts, or maybe someone else in
> the dev team can give you that information.
>
> Regards,
> Thierry.
>
> puneet pandey wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have made some modifications in the madwifi-0.9.2 code and i want to
>> build this code on a node. Can anyone help me how to build madwifi-0.9.2
>> driver on the orbit nodes. Is there any available image on which i can build
>> the driver. What all will i need to install for building it. i went through
>> the tutorial about building drivers but the linux headers and linux-kbuild
>> which it says to install doesnot seem to be available when i do apt-get.
>>
>> If someone can help me with compiling any other version of madwifi (0.9.3
>> series or 0.9.4) , that would also do.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Puneet
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:36 PM, puneet pandey <puneetp30 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:puneetp30 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi,
>>
>>    I am facing problem in compiling the source code for the
>>    madwifi-driver. I tried madwifi-0.9.3.3 madwifi-0.9.3.2 and
>>    madwifi-0.9.4 but for all these it gave following message
>>    /
>>    /root at node1-1:/usr/src/madwifi-0.9.4# make
>>    ./kernelversion.c:13:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h : no such file
>>    or directory
>>    Checking requirements ..ok
>>    Checking kernel configuration ... /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax
>>    error near unexpected token `|`
>>    /bin/sh: -c: line 0: echo char * uts_release = UTS_RELEASE; | grep
>>    -q -i '^[2-9]\.[4-9]\.' || { \'
>>
>>    i am using baseline-2.4.ndz image and the uname -r output is
>>    2.6.22-3-686
>>
>>    Can anyone help me with this.
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>
>>    Puneet
>>
>>
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