On Sunday 21 October 2007 12:05, Ben Kevan wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2007 08:15:32 pm Carl Luescher wrote: > > On Saturday 20 October 2007 21:05, Ben Kevan wrote: > > > > > You were not getting this behavior? > > > > > > > > Yes I was. As root, cd into /usr/src/linux and run make cloneconfig > > > > then make bzImage. When this completes run make modules. This may > > > > be all that is necessary. Go back to your ipw3945-1.2.2 directory > > > > and try make. Let me know how this turns out for you. > > > > > > Hey Carl, > > > > > > Actually I just decided to umrpm the source files and created a patch > > > and modified the spec file (to stay in guidlines of how the Novell > > > stuff is done, by preserving the original source). > > > > > > Thanks.. > > > > Ben, > > > > Can you enlighten me on this? Sounds like you found a better way. > > > > Thanks > > Sure.. Downloaded ipw3945 kmp source rpm. > unrpm the downloaded source rpm file. > > Modified the .spec file to add a patch to apply to the source ipw3945.c > file. > > Rebuilt the source and was good :) > > You can check some basic build stuff from this Novell Cool Solution: > > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11793.html > or possibly this article: > http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial > > I created my patch file using the diff command. > > You can see alot of what I did at this bug report: > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=330995 > > Where I have also provided an updated RPM with the changes I needed due to > failing ipw3945 driver (connecting to open encryption AP's). > > Ben
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