[Avila] upgrading madwifi on the build environment

Ahmet Basagalar ahmet at thebluezone.com
Tue Dec 5 10:48:51 EST 2006


Well in this case you are compiling madwifi seperately. So you will need to 
manually copy the resulting modules to the appropriate places on the romfs 
directory. It may be wiser to put the new code in snapgear source tree, I 
think somebody mentioned about this here.

Ahmet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gravastar" <gravastar at gmail.com>
To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: [Avila] upgrading madwifi on the build environment
Subject: [Avila] > Thanks for your replys guys.
>
> I tried your approach Ahmet, it compiled fine. However, i can't seem to
> detect any changes to the snapgear source tree. Is this correct? Also, 
> what
> is madwifi directoy in the /user directory do then?
>
>
>
> On 11/29/06, Ahmet Basagalar <ahmet at thebluezone.com> wrote:
>>
>> This is pretty straightforward. Just get the latest code from madwifi.
>> Modify makefile.inc to have the correct kernelpath and modify Makefile to
>> include crosscompile as follows
>>
>> $(MAKE) -C $(KERNELPATH) SUBDIRS=$(shell pwd) modules
>> CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-
>>
>> Also you may need to change an include line on one of the source code
>> files
>> but I do not remeber that at this moment, should be easy to find from the
>> compile error messages.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ahmet
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gravastar" <gravastar at gmail.com>
>> To: <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:47 AM
>> Subject: [Avila] upgrading madwifi on the build environment
>>
>>
>> >I have snapgear/uClinux build environment (snapgear-3.3.0-avila)
>> installed
>> > with the arm linux toolchain (arm-linux-tools-20031127)  installed on 
>> > my
>> > dev
>> > box.
>> >
>> > I can build an image and load it up and run it.
>> >
>> > I am coming across some issues which require me to upgrade the madwifi
>> > installed on the image. How do i go about upgrading the snapgear build
>> > environment to have a new version of madiwifi so i can build a new
>> image?
>> >
>> > Also, i noticed a post referring to snapgear-3.4.0 . Where can i obtain
>> > this?
>> >
>> > Thank you for you time.
>> >
>>
>>
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