[SOLVED] hey, madwifi prob. please help after two days of digging the net for solutio - Page 2

10-16-2008	#11 (permalink)
waterhead Trusted Penguin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Franklin, Wisconsin Posts: 3,934	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. __________________ Paul Please do not PM me with requests for help. I will not reply.

10-16-2008

#12 (permalink)

Test For Echo

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solved! here is the story

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

i encountered difficulty with fedora repo:

Quote:

[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!

10-16-2008	#13 (permalink)
waterhead Trusted Penguin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Franklin, Wisconsin Posts: 3,934	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. __________________ Paul Please do not PM me with requests for help. I will not reply.

10-16-2008	#14 (permalink)
Test For Echo Just Joined! Join Date: May 2008 Location: Israel Posts: 37	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?

10-16-2008	#15 (permalink)
root@manabiscuits.org Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 30	centos & madwifi rpm madness (weird dependency issue) - LinuxQuestions.org Im too late, lol.

10-16-2008	#16 (permalink)
waterhead Trusted Penguin Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Franklin, Wisconsin Posts: 3,934	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. __________________ Paul Please do not PM me with requests for help. I will not reply.

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