[SOLVED] hey, madwifi prob. please help after two days of digging the net for solutio

[waterhead]

When compiling anything, you usually do everything up to make install as a regular user. You then use su to give you root privileges to run make install.

[Test For Echo]

first, you were right , the problem was glibc-header.

i encountered difficulty with fedora repo:

[root@localhost madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903]# yum install glibc-headers.i386
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, fedorakmod, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* fedora: ftp.iasi.roedu.net
* freshrpms: ayo.ie.freshrpms.net
* livna-source: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* fedora-source: ftp.iasi.roedu.net
* livna-testing: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* updates: ftp.uni-erlangen.de
67 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc-headers.i386 0:2.8-3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc = 2.8-3 for package: glibc-headers
--> Running transaction check
---> Package glibc.i386 0:2.8-3 set to be updated
--> Processing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 for package: glibc
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
glibc-2.8-3.i386 from fedora has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i386 (fedora)
Error: Missing Dependency: glibc-common = 2.8-3 is needed by package glibc-2.8-3.i386 (fedora)
[root@localhost madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-r3861-20080903]# yum install glibc-headers.i686
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, fedorakmod, protectbase, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* livna: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* fedora: ftp.iasi.roedu.net
* freshrpms: ayo.ie.freshrpms.net
* livna-source: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* fedora-source: ftp.iasi.roedu.net
* livna-testing: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de
* updates: ftp.uni-erlangen.de
67 packages excluded due to repository protections
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package glibc-headers.i686 available.
Nothing to do

so i disabled the fedora repo and added rawhide.
then updated the glibc to a newer version and tried to compile madwifi again.

this time it worked!




thank you very very much for your help.
all thumbs up!

[waterhead]

Let's hope that this driver will work better. Just follow the same How-To for setup of the card and driver. Let us know how it works out.

[Test For Echo]

well, after compiling i just did modprobe ath_pci, and vuala. up and running, no reboot.

ive also checked modprobe.conf aliased just right and that ath5k is blacklisted


BTW, why u need to do "make" with regular user and "make install" as root?

[root@manabiscuits.org]

centos & madwifi rpm madness (weird dependency issue) - LinuxQuestions.org

Im too late, lol.

[waterhead]

Hmm..

This thread was closed and locked, I had to use my supreme powers to unlock it so that I could post a reply.

One reason for not compiling programs as root, is that the files are then owned by root. You can't then do anything with them, unless you are root.