BRN:Software:Build and Distribution:Madwifi

Introduction

Madwifi is the name of the open source project and the name of its device driver for the Atheros wireless networking card. The Netgear WGT634U has built-in a MiniPCI Atheros AR5213A card.

Driver Sources

Fetch the tarball from the project's website and unpack them:

$ wget http://mesh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/madwifi/madwifi-0.9.2.tar.bz2
$ tar xjf madwifi-0.9.2.tar.bz2

Alternatively checkout the sources from svn:

$ svn co http://svn.madwifi.org/trunk madwifi-svn

Patch for madwifi:

$ svn co svn://sarsvn.informatik.hu-berlin.de/BerlinRoofNet/trunk/madwifi/patches madwifi-patches

Build

Apply patches:

$ cd madwifi-0.9.2  # or "cd madwifi-svn"
$ for p in ../madwifi-patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 -i $p; done

Copy build script from kernel:

$ KERNEL_VERSION=2.6.16.13
$ KERNEL_DIR=linux-$KERNEL_VERSION
$ cp ../linux-$KERNEL_VERSION/build.sh .

Build:

$ sh build.sh KERNELPATH=$(pwd)/../$KERNEL_DIR

Install

$ KERNELRELEASE=$KERNEL_VERSION$(grep CONFIG_LOCALVERSION= ../$KERNEL_DIR/.config | sed 's/CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="\([^"]\+\)"/\1/')
$ sh build.sh install DESTDIR=$(pwd)/../root KERNELRELEASE=$KERNELRELEASE
$ (cd ../$KERNEL_DIR; /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b $(pwd)/../root -r $KERNELRELEASE)

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