Orinoco 0.11b and WE14

[David Gibson]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:21:13PM -0500, Paul Gonin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to compile the orinoco 11b driver afetr having applied the 
> patch for the support of the wireless extension 14 API 
> (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ori.11b.we14.mos.diff)
> 
> I am targetting an iPaq, so I got a kernel source 2.4.18 from the 
> familiar project (familiar.handhelds.org) and I modified the Makefile to 
> use these source (KERNEL_SRC = /home/paul/ipaq/kernel/linux/kernel), 
> then I only replaced wireless.h in the include directory of this kernel 
> tree with wireless.14.h
> 
> Then I try to cross compile it but it doesn't work (see attached trace)
> 
> My belief is that kernel 2.4.18 is not suitable for eventing which 
> explains why I can't compile this driver. Am I correct? Was it intended 
> to be used with a 2.5 kernel series only ?

Yes, you'll need the kernel core of the v14 wireless extensions.
That's in 2.5 and also the recent 2.4.19-pre versions from Marcelo,
IIRC.

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