Network Manager Patch

[Matthew Flaschen]

Patton Echols wrote:
> On 03/22/2007 08:58 PM, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
> Thank you Matthew for the instructions.  As I mentioned to Matthew off 
> the list, it appears that there are two patches in the page I linked, I 
> don't know if that's the trouble Matthew ran into.

That was the original problem, but then I found the "correct" patch
conflicted with one already provided in the sources.

>> Then, (starting in the NetworkManager directory)
>>
>> cd network-manager-*
>> cp ../atheros.patch .
>> patch -p0 < atheros.patch
>>   
> I got to this point and received what I take to be an error.  Here is 
> the out put of the command followed by the contents of the file listed 
> in the output:
> 
> patton at Mycroft:~/NetworkManager/network-manager-0.6.3$ patch -p0  < 
> atheros.patch
> patching file src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 117 (offset -4 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 1152 (offset 134 lines).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 1248 (offset 134 lines).
> Hunk #4 FAILED at 1308.
> Hunk #5 succeeded at 3309 with fuzz 1 (offset 114 lines).
> 1 out of 5 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file 
> src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c.rej
> 
> =======================
> 
> And here is the contents of file src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c.rej
> 
> [snip]
>
> I stopped at this point.  I really don't want to render NM useless.  Any 
> thoughts?

Just generating the package won't change your NM install.  You would
have to install it first.

  Matthew had suggested I'd find that the madwifi patch was
> already in place when I downloaded the source.  i didn't find it where 
> it should have been.

Did you find the debian/patches directory?

> Should I carry on with trying to build with the patch?

Probably not.  I doubt it will work.  I should say that I'm on Dapper
(well really gnewsense 1.1 but hopefully that doesn't matter).

Matt Flaschen