From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 Description of problem: I've just gone through the somewhat painful process of creating a Red Hat-compatible SPEC file for the "linux-wlan-ng" package. (See http://www.linux-wlan.org.) These drivers are a bit of a pain to use, because they don't support the standard wireless extensions, so they can't be configured with iwconfig. However, they do seem to be the most functional drivers available for 802.11b cards based in Intersil PRISM chips (which seems to be most of them). Building the drivers requires access to both a configured kernel source tree and a configured pcmcia-cs source tree. I thought of building them as a subpackage of kernel-pcmcia-cs, but that doesn't really make sense, as the package also includes drivers for PCI and USB adapters. I also wanted the RPM version to accurately reflect the driver version. I finally ended up modifying the kernel-pcmcia-cs SPEC file to build a pcmcia-cs-source package, with the configured source in /usr/src. It strikes me that this might be useful for just about anyone building or packaging a PCMCIA card driver. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.n/a 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 57985 [details] SPEC file modified to build pcmcia-cs-source RPM
Created attachment 57986 [details] SPEC file for linux-wlan-ng drivers; feel free to use it
The thing is, pcmcia-cs should die; the only thing we use from it is cardmgr and the config files, none of the kernel side. If wvlan-ng uses that, it'll not be supported at all...
Well I'd be interested in seeing prism2 continued, the drivers supplied in RH8 don't work at all with my PCMCIA card, whereas installing a year-old prism2 driver, and the wlan stuff worked immediately! Unfortunately I can't find any source for the driver to work with an smp machine, as no prebuilt RPMs exist, and the original author appears to be incommunicado...
At this point, I don't think we'll do this.