Problem in installing madwifi on fedora 12

[vivek146]

Hi Friends,

I am trying to install madwifi on fedora 12. I am getting following error which i "make" the project.

/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9574: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9580: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9586: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9592: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9598: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9604: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9610: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9616: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9623: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9630: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9636: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9642: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9648: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9654: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9660: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9667: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9673: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9680: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9686: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c: In function 'ath_announce':
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9779: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c: In function 'ath_rcv_dev_event':
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9926: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'priv'
/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.c:9928: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'open'
make[3]: *** [/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath/if_ath.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4/ath] Error 2
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/nctuns/Desktop/madwifi-0.9.4] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32.11-99.fc12.i686'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
[nctuns@localhost madwifi-0.9.4]$





Please help.

Thanks,

Vivek

---------- Post added at 02:20 PM CDT ---------- Previous post was at 12:29 PM CDT ----------

If I try to install the previous version of madwifi, I am getting the folowing error.

root@localhost madwifi-0.9.0]# make
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `echo char *uts_release = UTS_RELEASE; | grep -q -i '^[2-9]\.[4-9]\.' || { \'
make: *** [configcheck] Error 2
[root@localhost madwifi-0.9.0]#


Please help.


Thanks,

Vivek

[glennzo]

Try installing kernel-devel and see if the compile gets further along or actually completes.

su -c 'yum install kernel-devel'

You may need more than that but it's a start.

[JEO]

The first errors look like the kernel is too new (or old) for the source that you have. Check what kernel versions it is compatible with.

The second errors look like gcc version incompatible or macros incompatible. Check the required gcc version for that old source. Or try using compat-gcc

[leigh123linux]

The source code is too old for the kernel.

[leigh@localhost madwifi-0.9.4]$ make
./kernelversion.c:13:30: error: linux/utsrelease.h: No such file or directory
Checking requirements... ok.
Checking kernel configuration... /bin/sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `|'
/bin/sh: -c: line 0: `echo char *uts_release = UTS_RELEASE; | grep -q -i '^[2-9]\.[4-9]\.' || { \'
make: *** [configcheck] Error 1
[leigh@localhost madwifi-0.9.4]$

Try

su
yum install svn

get the latest source

svn checkout http://madwifi-project.org/svn/madwifi/trunk madwifi
cd madwifi
make
su
make install