[PlanetCCRMA] missing iwlwifi modules in new kernel 2.6.23.12

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 19:19 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
> Thank you Fernando for looking into this.
> 
> If you think it's going to be painful to fix it then maybe it would be
> easier to build a separate module. 

The kernel built, it was not _that_ hard to fix the patches and import
new ones from the latest test Fedora kernel, just boring work. I'm now
building the ipw3945 modules for it... (don't know if it works or it
will install, of course :-)

-- Fernando


> How did you manage to build the
> ipw3945 module? I tried to build that one some time ago and the one
> for 4965 using the source code from Intel's web site and it complains
> of some missing headers in the kernel source that I think are provided
> by Intel's mac80211 patches (that should be applied to the kernel
> source). Wouldn't it be easier to patch the CCRMA kernel with this
> mac80211 patches and then build a module either by you or the user
> instead of trying to use Fedora's patches (which anyways seem to
> perform not as good as the latest Intel driver, for example the
> wireless LED on the laptop won't lit)? Anyway, as you might already
> know all the information is available here:
> http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/index.php?p=iwlwifi
> 
> Cheers!
> On Dec 20, 2007 4:05 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 11:21 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 10:45 -0500, Hector Centeno wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Here I come again with a wireless request. I recently had to replace
> > > > the wireless card in my laptop and what I found available was an Intel
> > > > 4965. After installing it I was expecting to have to compile modules
> > > > for it but to my surprise I found it just worked  with the CCRMA
> > > > kernel... until the recent update.  It looks like the new
> > > > 2.6.23.12-1.rt14.1.fc8.ccrmart is missing the iwlwifi modules that are
> > > > present in the previous CCRMA kernels and that allowed my wifi to
> > > > work. Was this an intentional omission?
> > >
> > > Hmmmm, most probably that was part of the Fedora patches. Some of them
> > > (and I think the wireless ones were one of them) would not patch
> > > correctly on top of the newer kernel... sigh.
> >
> > That's the reason, I "fixed" one of them to patch (linux-2.6-wireless)
> > and then:
> >
> > + '[' '!' -f /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/linux-2.6-wireless-pending.patch ']'
> > + case "$patch" in
> > + patch -p1 -F1 -s
> > 3 out of 355 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c.rej
> > 3 out of 377 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c.rej
> > 1 out of 66 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
> > drivers/net/wireless/libertas/main.c.rej
> >
> > ...
> > -- Fernando
> >
> >
> >