My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in quite a while, I again need to run madwifi. So I went looking for the dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them. They use to be on rpmforge, as I recall. dkms is there.
So have I lost some memory cells or have these rpms taken a hike?
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in quite a while, I again need to run madwifi. So I went looking for the dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them. They use to be on rpmforge, as I recall. dkms is there.
Not sure what a OQO box is, but I'm running 64 bit Fedora 9 with kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 and my AR5700 works fine.
With previous kernels, I had to use madwifi.
Agile Aspect wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in quite a while, I again need to run madwifi. So I went looking for the dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them. They use to be on rpmforge, as I recall. dkms is there.
Not sure what a OQO box is, but I'm running 64 bit Fedora 9 with kernel 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.x86_64 and my AR5700 works fine.
This is for the OQOs that have Centos on them. This is interesting to know for the one that has F10 on it.
With previous kernels, I had to use madwifi.
Long back I used the kmod-madwifi patched kernel from atrpms, but then we got a dkms loadable madwifi and no more kernel patches. DKMS is how I am running my ipw3945 driver on this notebook.
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:09:56PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
With previous kernels, I had to use madwifi.
Long back I used the kmod-madwifi patched kernel from atrpms, but then we got a dkms loadable madwifi and no more kernel patches. DKMS is how I am running my ipw3945 driver on this notebook.
Please note that
a) kmod is not the atrpms method of packaging kernel modules, kmdls is b) kmdls involve no patching at all, the kmdl packages are just add-ons that you can drop into your running kernel.
In fact the end result of kmdls and dkms is not different, both offer you an additional (set of) kernel module(s).
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
From: Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com Subject: [CentOS] What ever happened to the dkms atheros drivers/ To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:47 PM My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in quite a while, I again need to run madwifi. So I went looking for the dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them. They use to be on rpmforge, as I recall. dkms is there.
It's still there, called madwifi
You might expect it to be called dkms-madwfi, but there is no <dkms-> prefix. It still is hooked in to the dkms model.
Mark Pryor wrote:
--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
From: Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com Subject: [CentOS] What ever happened to the dkms atheros drivers/ To: "CentOS mailing list" centos@centos.org Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 2:47 PM My OQO boxes have the AR5413 wifi chipset, so for the first time in quite a while, I again need to run madwifi. So I went looking for the dkms madwifi rpms, but could not find them. They use to be on rpmforge, as I recall. dkms is there.
It's still there, called madwifi
You might expect it to be called dkms-madwfi, but there is no <dkms-> prefix. It still is hooked in to the dkms model.
They could have least put in the discription that it uses dkms. Well I did the yum install, and it did grab dkms to complete the dependencies. Yea!
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
They could have least put in the discription that it uses dkms. Well I did the yum install, and it did grab dkms to complete the dependencies. Yea!
And did you raise this issue on the rpmforge lists ?
Duh....
Get right on it.
Too much to do.....
I could complain about it, but I'd rather revel in all the fun poking stuff!
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