On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Partha Bagchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 04:08:47PM -0700, Partha Bagchi wrote: >>> Thanks for the patch. The patch did not apply, I got all rejected >>> hunks when I applied it to the source >>> compat-wireless-2.6-old/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k >>> >>> Here are the error messages: >>> Bordeaux > patch -p1 < connectivity.patch >>> patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h >>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 976. >>> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file >>> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.h.rej >>> patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c >>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 204. >>> Hunk #2 FAILED at 1505 >>> 2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file >>> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c.rej >>> patching file drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c >>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 239. >>> 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file >>> drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/xmit.c.rej >>> >>> When I looked at the source, I could see that the patch could not work >>> since the line numbers are not right. I even tried it on a freshly >>> downloaded source from >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat-wireless-old.tar.bz2 >> >> Ah, well it seems we need to update ath9k on compat-wireless-old again. >> You can try to replace the ath9k directory from compat-wireless (note, >> not -old) with the onto compat-wireless-old and see if that compiles. >> If it doesn't compile then you need to do some backport work on that >> ath9k files to get it to compile on older kernels. >> >> Luis >> > > Hi Luis, > > I did what you suggested. I downloaded the latest compat-wireless-2.6. > I copied the ath9k subdirectory into compat-wireless-2.6.old > directory. I deleted that subdirectory prior to doing this. The > compilation went without a hitch. So, looks like the compilation is > not a problem. > > I installed the drivers and activated my card. Next, I will test to > see how long the connection lasts.
Thanks for reporting this after this patch gets merged I'll update compat-wireless-old to have ath9k with it then, just as you did. > One last questions though. I downloaded the latest compat-wireless-2.6 > yesterday (EDT). Is it fair to say that the patch did not make it into > that varsion? Do I need to pull in the git version to have a stable > connection? (My guess is yes?) You just need to apply the patch from inside compat-wireless-old directory, you do not need to pull in anything git-wise. patch -p1 < foo.patch Luis _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
