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Old 04-21-2004, 01:34 PM   #1
brundles
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Angry SuSE patched out my wireles card


Hi,

Anybody got any suggestions on this one...

Basically I let SuSE update run with the automatic setting the other day. It kindly went off, retrieved a whole pile of patches, rebuilt the kernel, etc. Unfortunately in the process it overwrote the WLAN-NG pre16 drivers I had installed with the current SuSE issue pre9 drivers

Have tried rebulding the pre16 drivers but there seems to be something floating around mismatching across the two kernels. When I try the MAKE ALL, I get the following error after it's built the p80211 modules:

make[3]: Entering directory
`/root/wlan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre16/src/prism2/driver'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target
`/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-99/include/linux/modsetver.h', needed by
`.depend.usb'. Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/root/wlan/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre16/src/prism2/driver'


The current source files and kernel modules are all setup to point to linux-2.4.21-199.

I've tried cleaning things up with MAKE CLONECONFIG followed by MAKE DEP and MAKE CLEAN but still no luck.

Thanks in advance,
Keith
 
Old 04-21-2004, 03:13 PM   #2
Caeda
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Um... this really isnt to difficult to fix? Not even sure why you had to ask..

Fire up yast. find the kernel. And, bah-dah-dum... Update it to version .99 that you started out with..

Then. Go back into auto-update. And have enough sense to click on the kernel updates and disable them permenantly.
 
Old 04-21-2004, 03:24 PM   #3
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Caeda,

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping it would be possible to fixup the drivers while keeping the kernel updates that had been downloaded.

Do you think that is something that's easy to do for a newbie?

Keith
 
Old 04-22-2004, 05:23 AM   #4
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Talking Nice simple solution...

Removing the source directory for the wlan-ng drivers and re-untarring the file seems to have worked. Must have been something left in from the old build it didn't clean out.
 
  


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