Bug#463353: madwifi-source: cannot build with 2.6.24-1-686

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Kel Modderman said:
> Thank you for this very useful information.
> 
> Even when this obstacle is passed, the current madwifi version will fail to
> build. I've been working on getting the madwifi.org team to work towards a
> release in the coming week that would not fail to compile against 2.6.24.
> 
> Am also thinking of packaging the SVN trunk variant of madwifi, possibly for
> experimental, or possibly for unstable (instead of the upcoming "stable"
> upstream release). I'd be interested in hearing the opinion of any developer
> who is interested in uploading a new madwifi package to the archive in the
> next few days.

Just to let you know, 2.6.24 (in Debian - 2.6.25 for vanilla kernel) is
shipping the ath5k module, which is AIUI replacing madwifi.  I don't know
if that affects your plans, but I wanted to be sure you were aware of it.

Cheers,
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