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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Kel Modderman, Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:27:48PM +1000 |=-
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 22:01:02 Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Kel Modderman said:
> > > Am pretty well informed about ath5k movements with regards to mainline
> > > inclusion (am involved with madwifi.org team that handles development
> > > of the non-free madwifi and free ath5k module) but not with debian's
> > > movements. Thanks for the heads up.
> > 
> > Cool, wasn't trying to teach you to suck eggs :)  Thanks for looking
> > after madwifi and now ath5k - you've kept several of my laptops
> > connected over the years.
> 
> About the only way I can see Madwifi being a useful package now that ath5k is
> on the scene is to have madwifi actively claim priority over ath5k by
> blacklisting it via conffile file in /etc/modprobe.d/ (installed by madwifi-tools
> package).
> 
> This is staged for next madwifi-tools upload pending discussion.
> 
> Do you think this would be an ok action to take at this stage?

why not?

> Proposed updates are at:
> http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.9.4~rc1-1.dsc
> http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/contrib/m/madwifi-tools/madwifi-tools_0.9.3+dfsg-4.dsc

I gave these a try. They built fine (2.6.24-1-amd64).

The madwifi-modules generated by m-a has "Depends: madwifi-tools"
without version. As I understand it, the blacklisting of ath5k in
madwifi-tools is introduced in 0.9.3+dfsg-4 so perhaps the Depends line
in generated madwifi-modules should be adjusted to include version?

After installing madwifi-tools 0.9.3+dfsg-4 and rebooting, everything
came as before. No ath5k was loaded, madwifi seems to work fine.

Thank you very much, Kel.

I hope kernel-supplied ath5k will get usable soon.
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