[Avila] upgrading madwifi on the build environment

[Ahmet Basagalar]

After running make on the snapgear source tree, then you will need to copy 
the madwifi drivers that you compiled to the romfs directory on snapgear 
source, and then create the image file manually afterwards. That way you 
will have the updated version of the madwifi driver.

Ahmet
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gravastar" <gravastar at gmail.com>
To: "Avila" <avila at lists.unixstudios.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Avila] upgrading madwifi on the build environment
Subject: [Avila] > Thanks for you reply.
>
> I suspect you are talking about David Acker's approach.
>
> Quoting David Acker's Email
> "
> You can download the latest madwifi (svn or tar.gz release).  Then
> remove from linux/drivers/net/wireless all the madwifi directories.  You
> will need to edit the makefile and Kconfig as well.  Then, run the
> madwifi installer in madwifi/patches/install.sh .  Finally you may need
> to edit your .config.  The avila release of the kernel had the madwifi
> subdirectories  in the drivers/net/wireless directory while the madwifi
> installer puts subdirectories in its own subdirectory,
> drivers/net/wireless/madwifi.
> "
>
> I have some questions about that.
>
> He mentions that i should get rid of the madwifi directories in
> linux/drivers/net/wireless, i can't find any directories here to start 
> with,
> all i can find is the madiwifi in the /user directory.
> He mentions i need to alter to Kconfig and makefile and potentially my
> .config, i'm not entirely sure what alterations i need to make. He 
> mentions
> that the avila release has madwifi directories in drivers/net/wireless and
> that the madiwifi installer puts subdirectories in its own subdirectory,
> drivers/net/wireless/madwifi - i'm not entirely sure what he means, but 
> this
> does not seem to happen when i run the patches/install.sh
>
>
> what i tried doing i followed your modification steps, Ahmet, the madwifi
> compiled fine. I then ran the madwifi installer
> (madwifi/patches/install.sh). This created a directory madiwifi
> drviers/net/wireless and copied some files into it. I then went into the
> snapgear source tree and ran make, which generated an image. Is this the
> process? What concerns me is that i'm supposed to be upgrading madwifi and
> the only traces of madiwifi i can find in the source tree is /user/madwifi
> and my process of upgrading it does not seem to touch /user/madwifi
>
> I thank you for taking your time to help me with my problem.
>
> On 12/6/06, Ahmet Basagalar <ahmet at thebluezone.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> > 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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