[CentOS] Re: Madwifi just seems to work in Centos 5

[Robert Moskowitz]

Axel Thimm wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:22:04PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>> Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:55:25AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:03:39AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>>> I have not installed the madwifi specific kernel stuff (kdml and
>>>>>>>> hal-kdml) from atrpms.  I have installed with wpa rpms.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And my Atheros card is working with almost no work on my part (other
>>>>>>>> than runing wpa_supplicant as a deamon).
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>>>> Here is the results from lspci and lsmod.  There is ONE madwifi rpm 
>>>> installed:
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>>>> madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm
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>>>> ath_pci                86180  0 
>>>> ath_rate_sample        16896  1 ath_pci
>>>> wlan                  172764  4 wlan_scan_sta,ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
>>>> ath_hal               195280  3 ath_pci,ath_rate_sample
>>>>    
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>>> So you are obviously using madwifi after all to drive the card. :)
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>> But where did it come from?????
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>> I did not install the kernel driver rpms.
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> madwifi-0.9.2.1-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm follows a different method that
> creates them on your system. There are pros and cons to using prebuilt
> binaries vs your own custom kernel modules.
How do tell where these things came from and what method they use???

One of my 'issues' or feature requests is to know which repo an rpm came from provided it was installed via yum or yumex.

Obviously if i downloaded the rpm and 'manually installed' directly with rpm, it is my job to track where I got the rpm from....