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Why slackware 12 insists on shipping a wpa_supplicant without madwifi support? This is always a pain, because I could not figure how to compile it myself, it always fails the build
With slack 11, alien builds saved my ass, but now I need a slack12 package. Any help with this? :|
TL
Code:
wpa_supplicant v0.5.7
Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi> and contributors
This program is free software. You can distribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.
Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
BSD license. See README and COPYING for more details.
This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project
for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)
usage:
wpa_supplicant [-BddehLqquvwW] [-P<pid file>] [-g<global ctrl>] \
-i<ifname> -c<config file> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] [-p<driver_param>] \
[-b<br_ifname> [-N -i<ifname> -c<conf> [-C<ctrl>] [-D<driver>] \
[-p<driver_param>] [-b<br_ifname>] ...]
drivers:
wext = Linux wireless extensions (generic)
hostap = Host AP driver (Intersil Prism2/2.5/3)
atmel = ATMEL AT76C5XXx (USB, PCMCIA)
ndiswrapper = Linux ndiswrapper
ipw = Intel ipw2100/2200 driver (old; use wext with Linux 2.6.13 or newer)
wired = wpa_supplicant wired Ethernet driver
Install it yourself. Download the sources, get the SlackBuild here, run it and reboot. Worked right out of the box for me, and I have a custom kernel.
Errr I already did that, madwifi is compiled and working fine. My problem is with wpa_supplicant, because the original slackware package was build without madwifi support, so it fails when using madwifi.
Use the wpa_supplicant source and slackbuild from the slackware distribution (in the n series). Modify the slackbuild to point to your madwifi includes, then use the slackbuild to rebuild the package and install your new package.
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