Urs Beyerle wrote: > Troy Dawson wrote: >> Urs Beyerle wrote: >>> Urs Beyerle wrote: >>>> 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 >>> oh, its not working for 2.6.18-92.el5. I will fix it .... >>> >>> Urs >>> >> So it's not just me ... that's good. Well ... not really ... but at >> least I'm not just going crazy. >> > > > yes, you are ok ;-) > > Here is the new SRPM: > http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/51/beta/madwifi-0.9.4-14.slp5.src.rpm > containing madwifi-compat.h-kernel-2.6.18-92.el5.patch > > However, this SRPM will only work for kernel >= 2.6.18-92.el5. If you > want to put it into SL50/SL51 you have to update first the kernel to >= > 2.6.18-92.el5. > > Or do you know a good way to handle this in the SPEC file, something like > > %if %{....} > %patch0 -p0 -b .compat > %endif > > to apply the patch only for kernel >= 2.6.18-92.el5? > > > Hope it works this time > > Urs > At first glance, this seems easy ... until you actually try to do it. I'll look into this, but I'm thinking of doing something like a KNUM=`echo $kernel | cut -d'-' -f2 | cut -d'.' -f2` %if $KNUM >=92 That's a bit cludgy ... but it works. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________