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Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:18:54 -0600
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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To: Jeremy Wolcott <jeremy.wolcott@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: compat-wireless and DKMS
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Jeremy Wolcott wrote:
> Has anybody tried to get compat-wireless working with DKMS?  This would 
> be really handy for me since I run Ubuntu and they have been pushing 
> kernel updates pretty frequently lately, but I need the newest 
> compat-wireless to run my Atheros card in master mode via ath5k...
> 
> I tried for quite a while today and the build just won't work.  (The 
> 'make clean' step returns error 2, and then the build itself fails with 
> "(directory it's building in) is a directory.  Stop.")  I think it's 
> because the Makefile for compat-wireless uses the PWD environment 
> variable, but I'm not well-versed enough in Makefiles to fix it up so 
> that it'll work from a different directory (DKMS builds modules in 
> /var/lib/dkms/MODULE_NAME/VERSION/build instead of wherever I unpacked 
> the source).
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Jeremy
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I've been packaging compat-wireless in linux-backports-modules-2.6.31 on 
a semi-spasmodic basis. Current version contains wireless-testing 
master-2009-09-01.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com