11-08-05 10:58 PM
Nick wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed a madwifi kernel module using sarge
> WITHOUT internet access?
> I've tried compiling from madwifi source packages but can't get a loadable
> module.
I did it quite a bit with Woody. The only part that "required"
Internet access was sucking the madwifi stuff down via CVS. If you
can find another way to get that (e.g. have someone or something else
grab that for you, and pass it along some other way), then that would
likely work fine.
Not sure what the state of the madwifi stuff is - I know most of the
time it worked fine, but sometimes they'd manage to change the CVS in
such a manner that what I pulled down didn't work - but switching to
an older copy of what I'd pulled via CVS that had worked before was a
quick and effective work-around for that issue - and only hit that
snag exactly once.
With Sarge it seems to work more automagically, ... I haven't had to
muck with the madwifi stuff - seems to enable and use the hardware
fine without loading - or at least any manual loading of - the
madwifi modules I'd compiled.
But all along (for quite a while now), I've been running relatively
generic LINUX kernel, not the binary kernel or kernel sources from
Debian.
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