Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f167.google.com ([209.85.218.167]:44993 "EHLO mail-bw0-f167.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbZBQANI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:13:08 -0500 Received: by bwz11 with SMTP id 11so1725090bwz.13 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:13:04 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <6ad5d99d0902091343v693173f2w61ff60a216bb15e9@mail.gmail.com> <4990AC02.6030703@lwfinger.net> <3ace41890902091433g4c4e0c17n9e01aabc613d5bb6@mail.gmail.com> <6ad5d99d0902111412m97608eanf6c2fd3e8bc6af4c@mail.gmail.com> <3ace41890902111445k606682a8p197a9eb65cdbc3a2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:13:04 +0000 Message-ID: <3ace41890902161613o16586a95o2683f1976d7456fe@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090217_011311_958893_83EA11E2) Subject: Re: rtl8187 in Toshiba L300 linux troubles From: Hin-Tak Leung To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Mu=F1oz?= Cc: Jorge Munoz , wireless , Larry Finger Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jorge Mu=F1oz = wrote: > Thanks Hin-Tak, I haven't checked your answer yet. When I have got an > answer I' ll post here. But I have to say that I' ve compiled (Ubuntu > 8.10 distro based) compat-wireless without uninstalling > linux-backports-modules-2.6.27-11-generic and rtl8187 works correctly= =2E > > In order to installing compat-wireless rtl8187 driver I' ve done a > shell script to automate compilation process but next > step should be create a .deb package to include this in a repository > tree. Do you know if is there one with stable rtl8187 driver yet > (2.6.27-11)? > If you just want to distribute your build of kernel modules, you could just tar up /lib/modules/*/updates from your machine and untar that on the target m= achine. As I said, kernel modules are kernel-version specific, so I am afraid for each kernel you want to boot you need to build a deb package, if that's your direction. Something like dkms or equivalent may help you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html