On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Well, I recently built a system that has an Atheros wifi chip in it, and
needed the madwifi drivers. Been quite a while, as my current workhorse
notebook uses the iwl drivers.
Of course I wanted the dkms-based madwifi rpms over patching the kernel, so I
started searching with: yum lisk dkms*
No madwifi?
I did a yum list *madwifi*
and did get an rpm, but when I looked into its info, nothing about dkms.
Where did the dkms driver disappear to???
So I asked on the Centos list and I was supprised, but releaved to learn that
the madwifi rpm here at rpmforge DOES use dkms, it is just not labeled as
such. And when I did the install, dkms was also installed to meet the
dependencies.
Why is the madwifi's rpm file name not including the dkms designation
anymore?
It never was. And the reason why it is not is because it was created and
maintained by Matthias Saou in this way. This was before we adopted the
dkms-name naming scheme.
If we update this package we will modify the name, however I am scared of
updating this package unless someone with experience can give me a green
light to another version.
That is always the problem with releases that have not been dubbed by
upstream to be stable and working for 2.6.18.
At least the info should mention dkms so in yumex when you look at the info,
it will say dkms.
I agree with you on that. However that CentOS wiki does contain the proper
information regarding what package you need for the atheros chipset. (I
know since I added it myself ;-))
See:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless
Kind regards,
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