Description of problem: As I've reported in bug 735310 it's not possible for me to connect to Mobile Broadband from my laptop since I reinstalled it with Fedora 15. In Fedora 13 I had problems with the original kernel drivers that it did connect but usually had a packet loss of 70-80% and I solved that by compiling drivers from compat-wireless which worked pretty much flawlessly. So to solve this new problem I decided to do the same, only that it doesn't compile anymore due to changes in the kernel configs compared to Fedora 13 (and, I think, Fedora 14). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compat-wireless 2.6.39-1 Linux 2.6.40.3-0.fc15.x86_64 (from repo) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. tar -xf compat-wireless-2.6.39-1.tar.bz2 2. make Actual results: See attachment makefailure.txt Expected results: Finished compilation, installation and working drivers. Additional info:
Created attachment 521197 [details] Error output from make
John, Stanislaw, any thoughts?
compat-wireless does not allow to compile old drivers in newer kernels, 2.6.40 is newer than 2.6.39, so this is not valid bug. For compiling newer compat-wirless packages, this patch is needed to handle fedora 3.0 to 2.6.40 version change: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=519273 See also http://people.redhat.com/sgruszka/compat_wireless.html
In case someone googles for the error message and end up here. It helps to do: yum install kernel-devel *ahem* *blush* Sorry 'bout that. Haven't managed to compile it for 2.6.40 yet, but at least I've got it up and running for 2.6.38 at least, which is a hell of a lot better than no 3G at all... Sorry for being a klutz.