Re: IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>]

18 Kas 2006 Cts 16:26 tarihinde, Stephen Clark şunları yazmıştı: 
> Ismail Donmez wrote:
> >18 Kas 2006 Cts 12:20 tarihinde, Martin Lorenz şunları yazmıştı:
> >>Dear James,
> >>
> >>I just had some issues when trying to compile ieee80211 1.2.15 together
> >>with ipw3945 1.1.2 on the latest kernel tree
> >>
> >>attached are two patches I had to create to work around it
> >>I guess they are self-explanatory :-)
> >
> >I wonder when will ieee80211 tree will be merged to mainline, according to
> >some posts[1] its needed for some devices.
> >
> >[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156930
> >
> >/ismail
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> On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:42:55 -0500 Stephen Clark wrote:
> >> can someone tell me why I have to replace the 803.11 stack that is
> >> already in
> >> linux 2.6.19 rc5 with the stack at sf.
>
> You don't have to.
> The one in .19-rc5 is new enough (the one in .18 too AFAIK)
>
> I have successfully run ipw3945 with FC6 using the ieee80211 stack from the
> kernel I just had to compile with:
>  make IEEE80211_API=2 EXTRA_CFLAGS=-DIEEE80211_API_VERSION=2

Nice tip! Thanks.

/ismail