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Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:35:11 +0200
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Re: What to update for SL 5.2
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Troy Dawson wrote:
> Urs Beyerle wrote:
>> Hi Troy,
>>
>> here are my comments
>>
>>> madwifi - ?? -
>>>  - leave it at the
>> version 0.9.4 is the latest. 0.9.4 fixes some bugs. I did some small
>> tests with 0.9.4. It seems to be stable - with the old madwifi driver I
>> had some connection losses. No problem so far with the new driver. I
>> would go with 0.9.4. The SRPM is here:
>> http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/51/beta/madwifi-0.9.4-13.slp5.src.rpm 
>>
>>
>>
>
> Urs
> Did you get that to build on a SL 5 machine?
> If so, what build options did you use?  Or did you have to have 
> something extra installed?

no, as for the old madwifi driver I used:
rpmbuild -ba --target i686   --define 'kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5' 
--define 'buildall 1' madwifi.spec
rpmbuild -ba --target x86_64   --define 'kernel 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5' 
--define 'buildall 1' madwifi.spec

Please try

    Urs

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