Re: IEEE80211 and IPW3945

[Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@seclark.us>]

Ismail Donmez wrote:

>18 Kas 2006 Cts 12:20 tarihinde, Martin Lorenz şunları yazmıştı: 
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>
>>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.
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>[1] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156930
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>/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.
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>

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

and ln autoconf.h to config.h

HTH,
steve



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