I have D-link pci wireless card that user the atheros chip. I found a driver that which supports my chip but it is unlike anything I have seen befor. The file is madwifi-20030802.gz I decompressed but it appears to be a script not a directory. When I run make I get an error about there being no source. The file itself says that the Makefile may need to be edited to reflect the source directory. The only Makefile I am familiar with is the on where my kernel source files are located. I know this needs to be compiled but I do not know where to begin.

Is it possible that this file is missing some necessary components?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

kernel 2.4.7-10 rh7.2

Thanks

try this

sh filename

When I tried this it said "cannot execute binary file". sh seems to be the equivalent of ./fieletoexecute. Learn something every day. I wonderd how I could run a file from a script. I may have misled you on this, in saying I thought it was a script, I do not know what it is. It does not have the #!/bin/sh I have become accustomed to seeing. I will attach one of the sections labeled makefile of wich ther are many in the file. Possibly someone can tell me what to do with it.

#
# Makefile for the Atheros HAL Module.
#
# NB: we can't support MODVERSIONS because it requires building
# from source which may not be available
#
DEPTH= ..

KMODNAME= ath_hal

include ${DEPTH}/Makefile.inc

HALINCS=-I${HAL} -I${HAL}/linux -I${ATH_HAL}

SRCS= ${HAL}/linux/ah_osdep.c
OBJS= ah_osdep.o hal.o
INCS+= ${HALINCS} -I${LINUX} -I${DEPTH}

CLEANFILES+= opt_ah.h

ifneq (${LINUX_VERSION}, 204)
OBJS+= ah_osdep.mod.o
endif

ALL= ${KMODNAME}.${KMODSUF}
CFLAGS= ${INCS} -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE ${MODOPTS} ${COPTS}

all: ${ALL}

${KMODNAME}.${KMODSUF}: ${OBJS} ${HAL}/version.h Makefile
${LD} -o $@ -r -x ${OBJS}

ifdef HAL_SRC
include ${HAL}/linux/Makefile.inc
else
UUDECODE?=uudecode

hal.o: ${HAL}/linux/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
${UUDECODE} < ${HAL}/linux/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
opt_ah.h: ${HAL}/linux/opt_ah.h
cp ${HAL}/linux/opt_ah.h opt_ah.h
endif

ah_osdep.o: ${HAL}/linux/ah_osdep.c
${CC} -c -o $@ ${CFLAGS} $<

ifneq (${LINUX_VERSION}, 204)
ah_osdep.mod.c: ah_osdep.o
${KERNEL_PATH}/scripts/modpost ${KERNEL_PATH}/vmlinux $<
ah_osdep.mod.o: ah_osdep.mod.c
${CC} -c -o $@ ${CFLAGS} $<
endif

install: all
test -d ${DESTDIR}/${MODULE_PATH} || mkdir ${DESTDIR}/${MODULE_PATH}
cp ${ALL} ${DESTDIR}/${MODULE_PATH}

clean:
rm -f ${ALL} ${OBJS} ${CLEANFILES}

depend: beforedepend .depend afterdepend
.depend: ${SRCS} opt_ah.h
rm -f .depend
${CC} -M ${CFLAGS} ${SRCS} > .depend
beforedepend:
afterdepend:
-include .depend

Thanks

Well, according to this page, http://www.stat.ufl.edu/~presnell/Laptop/dwl-g650.txt ,

edit the Makefile.inc file to point to your kernel .config. He points to a directory of default redhat kernel configs that you would typically copy to the /usr/src/linux(-2.4?) dir, and then run make oldconfig from the kernel source dir.

Wierd though he says its no longer neccessary to edit the file, and then in his instructions it says to edit the file, go figure. But since your source says to edit the file, go ahead and do it.

Charlie

Yes, it looks like a makefile it should be named Makefile.

Ok if this ia a Makefile shouldn't there be something else to run aginst it? When I downloaded the .gz file I gzip -dv and got a single file madwifi-20030802 not a directory. My experiences have been extracting a tar or gzip and then cd to that directory and running make from within.

This is wher I am confused, all I have is this one file, nothing else; no Makefile, build, build.conf or anything. Do I copy this one file into a directory which contains the other elements and rename to Makefile and run make or is there a way to compile one file?


Thanks

Well then it may be an improperly named file, maybe a tar file. Run:

file filename

If it is a tar archive well then you know what to do, tar xvf filename.

Charlie

Most likely there is another file that you will need that goes with that one, not sure the name of it.

Pow! that was it... The file was named wrong changed from *.gz to *.tar.gz and extracted a directory full of stuff I do not understand for the most part, everything is back to normal.

I would have never thought of a bad filename.

Thx