Bug#343047: madwifi-source: Please include a README.Debian to outline build process

[Kel Modderman]

Nate Bargmann wrote:

>Package: madwifi-source
>Version: 0.svn20051110-1
>Severity: wishlist
>
>
>I decided to try the madwifi-source this evening and am at a bit of a
>loss on how to proceed.  I followed the instructions I've used in the 
>past at http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi and performed the
>following:
>
>copied /boot/config-2.6.14-2-686 to /usr/src/linux/.config
>make-kpkg --append-to-version "-2-686" --revision 2.6.14-4 --config oldconfig configure
>make-kpkg --append-to-version "-2-686" --revision 2.6.14-4 --added-modules madwifi modules_image
>
>to build against the installed Debian linux-kernel package.  After some
>output, the build process fails with the following error:
>
># Build modules
>/usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/modules/madwifi \
>        CC=gcc LD=ld TOOLPREFIX= \
>        KERNELPATH=/usr/src/linux KERNELRELEASE=2.6.14-2-686 TARGET=i386-elf ATH_RATE=ath_rate/sample
>make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
>Checking if all requirements are met... ok.
>mkdir -p ./symbols
>for i in ./ath_hal ./net80211 ath_rate/sample ./ath; do \
>                /usr/bin/make -C $i || exit 1; \
>        done
>make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal'
>cp ./../hal/linux/ah_osdep.c ah_osdep.c
>uudecode ./../hal/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
>cp ./../hal/public/i386-elf.opt_ah.h opt_ah.h
>/usr/bin/make -C /usr/src/linux SUBDIRS=/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal MODVERDIR=/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal/../symbols modules
>make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14'
>
>  WARNING: Symbol version dump /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14/Module.symvers
>           is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.
>
>  CC [M]  /usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal/ah_osdep.o
>/bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory
>make[6]: *** [/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal/ah_osdep.o] Error 1
>make[5]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal] Error 2
>make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.14'
>make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
>make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi/ath_hal'
>make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
>make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
>make[2]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
>make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
>make[1]: *** [kdist_build] Error 2
>make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/madwifi'
>Module /usr/src/modules/madwifi failed.
>Hit return to Continue
>
>
>The genksyms file seems is not yet built and I suspect that it won't be
>built until the kernel is built.  Is this necessary?  For the packages
>obtained from marlow.dk building the kernel was not necessary.
>
>It would be nice if the source package could provide some guidance about
>building the Madwifi modules using kernel-package.
>
>- Nate >>
>  
>
Hi Nate,

Did you look at this effort to document the preferred process of 
installing madwifi?

/usr/share/doc/madwifi-source/README.Debian

If that is not sufficient or could be rephrased please let me know about it.

Thanks, Kel.