Re: [Xen-users] xen and madwifi

["john maclean" <jayeola@xxxxxxxxx>]

For what it's worth madwifi works for me on 3.0.2. `make && make
install` built stuff within 3/4 minutes. I was able to slap the card
in and start using it. I build xen from source with `make world &&
make install` then I run

` make linux-2.6-xen-config CONFIGMODE=menuconfig && make
linux-2.6-xen-build && make linux-2.6-xen-install`.

Admitedly it takes a loooong time but it works for me on all of the
machines that I have

On 26/11/06, Jan Bernatik <jan.bernatik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I am still confused by that case. I am still missing arch/xen
> directory in my linux-2.6.16.29-xen kernel source tree. After I run
> make world, it was not present, as I mentioned above. So after reading
> your post, I did cd linux-2.6.16.29-xen, make menuconfig. I could see
> "processor type and features" -> "subarchitecture type" -> "xen
> compatible", so I guess SOME patches have to be applied in this stage.
> But after make, nothing changed, directory arch/xen still not present.
> I expeceted that, because I don't think that if arch/xen directory is
> not present, it will be created by make. I studied root directory
> makefile a bit, and tried make mkpatches. It created
> linux-2.6-xen.patch file in xen root directory. Should I apply this
> patch manually somehow, to modify vanilla linux kernel source tree ?
> Could you please tell me when exactly is vanilla kernel (downloaded
> from kernel.org) patched by xen patches ?
>
> What I thought about make process, is that:
> I download xen sources, which includes xen patches to appropriate
> vailla kernel, xen daemod, tools, and docs.
> I run make world, which downloads appropriate vanilla kernel, APPLY
> XEN PATCHES to it, and compiles it with some pre-configured setup,
> then compiles xend, tools, and creates docs.
> The I run sh ./install.sh, which  copies content od dist directory to
> appropriate system directories.
>
> but obviously, I miss something, because that's not exactly what
> happened, because I don't see xen architectur added to vanilla kernel
> tree, so I cannot use ARCH=xen option to make command, to compile
> madwifi driver for xen domain 0.
>
> thanks, I really feel like an idiot, being unable to make any progress.
>
> J.
>
> On 11/25/06, Tim Post <tim.post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 14:37 +0100, Jan Bernatik wrote:
> > > hi all,
> >
> > > I saw some posts saying that madwifi is working with xen, so I am
> > > curious what am I doing wrong.
> > >
> > > thanks, have a nice day
> > >
> > > J.
> > >
> >
> > If you go to /xen-3.0.3/linux-2.6.16.29-xen/ and run a make menuconfig
> > you'll be on familiar territory. From there a make, make modules_install
> > and make install will handle the rest. /lib/modules/2.6.16.29-xen will
> > look as it should after you do that and you can build your modules. This
> > should have already happened when you built from source, so double check
> > to be sure you have needed packages installed. Something didn't go
> > right :)
> >
> > With Xen, building from source is the best way to install, especially
> > with all of the changes in dependency packages .. sometimes they take a
> > while to perk their way through the binary packages on various distros.
> >
> > Just remember, 2.6.16.29-xen is just like any other kernel.org kernel,
> > with the addition of the xen patches. You are encouraged to (and should)
> > play with it :)
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > -Tim
> >
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