Custom kernel question

John Ruschmeyer jruschme at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 17:20:45 UTC 2005


Gabriel Euzet wrote:

>John Ruschmeyer a écrit :
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>>For a while, I've been building a custom kernel for my system based on
>>the linux-source package with the addition of the patches for Win4Lin
>>9x support (mki-adapter). Using kernelpackage, I can build an
>>installable kernel and headers which work fine on my desktop system
>>(very mundane hardware).
>>
>>For my laptop, though, I also need the madwifi driver which is part of
>>the linux-restricted-modules package and is not part of my custom kernel.
>>
>>So, my question is how can I set up a custom kernel which includes a
>>corresponding linux-restrictred-modules?
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>Madwifi exists on repositries only as binaries (linux-restricted-modules
>as you know).
>You need to download sources. Here is the Debian method to compil the
>kernel module :
>http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=debian&DokuWiki=a23f3394fffd1dbe676ab1c520ce35da
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So the bottom line is that I need to install each/all of the modules 
from linux-restricted-modules by hand on a custom kernel.

I didn't see it on any lists, but is there any chance that Win4Lin 
support might be added by default to the Dapper Drake kernel (ala the 
DCC kernel)?

<<<john>>>




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