Hello,

I am pretty new to all this so please be patient. I am trying to install Wireless Drivers on my Laptop. I am running Fedora Core 6. Part of the install doc I got from Wirelessdefence.org calls for a patch to be installed. The following is the output of that patch:

[root@ratiaa madwifi-0.9.2.1]# patch -Np1 -i ../madwifi-ng-r1886.patch
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
patching file ath/if_ath.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2248 (offset -41 lines).
patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line
Hunk #2 succeeded at 2306 with fuzz 1.
[root@ratiaa madwifi-0.9.2.1]#

I would assume that this patch did not install properly because afterwards the make gave me errors and the make install also gave me errors and not the expected output.

My questions:

1. Can I unpatch the patch and try again? I think I saved the patch improperly.
2. When I get errors in my make command where do I look to see what went wrong?
3. If I fix what went wrong can I feel sure that when I do a make again without errors the install is good or:
4. Do I need to uninstall something and begin all over again?

Like I said I am almost a newbie wth LINUX but I am determined to get this working.

Thanks for any help you can give me,

Pete

1. Can I unpatch the patch and try again? I think I saved the patch improperly.
If you run patch again it will notice it's patched and ask you if you want to reverse it.


2. When I get errors in my make command where do I look to see what went wrong?
Nowhere except onscreen, unless you did something like "make 2>&1 | tee logfile".


3. If I fix what went wrong can I feel sure that when I do a make again without errors the install is good or do I need to uninstall something and begin all over again?
If everything is "fixed", yes, probably. However, if you run a "regular" Fedora Core 6 kernel there is no need to. Atrpm's has Madwifi RPM's (madwifi-hal-kmdl and madwifi-kmdl, watch your kernel version) and those are all you need to get the ath_ kernel modules loaded. No source compile or dkms necessary.

OK thats good to know. I appreciate your help.

Maybe someone can point me in the direccion of a good source/book for getting started with error messages when using the make command. I did save the errors but I wont post them until I am asked to.

As far as I know I have a regular installacion of Fedora. I got the 5 cds off thier site and followed the install described at wirelessdefence.org

1. How do we define regular?
2. Also if my install already has these modules installed why would I get errors when I did the make?

Thanks so much because I know these questions must sound stupid for experts like you. And if anyone wants to know why I am getting into LINUX I would love to explain.

Pedro
Madrid

I did save the errors but I wont post them until I am asked to.
No, not here. The more information the better. As long as you cut out repetitive messages.


1. How do we define regular?
In this context I'd say "a kernel that was released by Fedora Core".


2. Also if my install already has these modules installed why would I get errors when I did the make?
Modules are a just the compiled product so unless you had the source installed (Madwifi .src.rpm or CVS tarball from Madwifi site), there's nothing to use "make" on that would "make sense" :-] BTW, I don't remember Madwifi being a patch of sorts. I always got it as the Madwifi CVS tarball to build outside the kernel source tree...


if anyone wants to know why I am getting into LINUX I would love to explain.
If you don't go into Mockerysoft bashing mode but emphasise GNU/Linux' strenghts, yeah, then I'm willing to listen....