Ticket #639 (closed defect: invalid)

Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

Incomplete installation instructions for Debian

Reported by: themiwi@gmail.com Assigned to: mentor
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: website Version:
Keywords: debian kernel header genksyms Cc: themiwi@gmail.com
Patch is attached: 0 Pending:

Description

The installation instructions for Debian (UserDocs/Distro/Debian/MadWifing?) for 2.6.x kernels appear to be incomplete (at least in my case: 2.6.16). You probably should mention that one has to install the kernel headers, the kernel source AND build the kernel. Else the scripts won't be generated and the module assistant will fail with the message

bin/sh: scripts/genksyms/genksyms: No such file or directory.

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05/23/06 01:46:32 changed by mentor

  • priority changed from major to minor.
  • owner set to mrenzmann.
  • component changed from madwifi: documentation to website.

I don't think so. Modules should build against linux-headers without a problem.

05/23/06 01:47:06 changed by mentor

  • status changed from new to assigned.
  • owner changed from mrenzmann to mentor.

05/23/06 10:22:25 changed by kelmo

  • status changed from assigned to closed.
  • resolution set to invalid.

I would encourage you to improve the wiki yourself when you see room for improvement, or contact the debian people responsible for those pages.

This ticket system in not for discussiung wiki pages, but for discussion what is in the svn archive.

07/20/08 03:25:10 changed by anonymous

I spent a while today trying to get madwifi to compile on my ubuntu-based system. The submitter of this ticket is somewhat right.... you must have 'genksyms' program from the kernel source compiled, and this is compiled when you issue a 'make modules' in the kernel source directory. So, kernel headers do NOT seem to be the only dependency to compile madwifi on debian/ubuntu (maybe others as well?).

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