[Click] Need help: incompatible between click and madwifi

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Peng

pwangee at udel.edu wrote:
> The following are the steps what I do. The current working kernel is 2.6.4 now.
> I want to install the Linux kernel 2.4.21 since it’s the latest version that
> “click” can support to work in kernel mode. 

Well, current CVS click can support 2.4.26.  I'm afraid I can't help with 
madwifi.  Do I understand correctly that the system is unstable *even if Click 
is not loaded*?  Are you sure you provided madwifi with the right arguments so 
that it built against the patched 2.4.21 kernel?

Eddie


> 1.	The current working kernel is 2.6.4.
> 2.	Download click-1.4pre1 and decompress it to fold “/home/click-1.4pre1”
> 3.	Download the kernel from Internet and decompress it to the fold
> “/usr/src/linux-2.4.21”.  Build a link “linux” to “linux-2.4.21”.
> 4.	Patch the kernel 2.4.21, and compile the kernel 2.4.21. Everything looks
> fine. The kernel can work.
> 5.	Reboot and choose the new kernel 2.4.21.
> 6.	According to “installation” of click, install the click. The first step is
> “./configure”, and the second step is “gmake install”. It looks fine.
> 7.	Download madwifi and install the wifi driver. The commands are as follow:
> “make”, and “make install”. The wifi works.
> 8.	Now, the system can work, but it’s not stable. After a few minutes, the
> system stalls. I can’t move mouse, input anything. The system doesn’t work at
> all.
> 
> I am afraid that the problem is that the kernel is patched by click and causes
> incompatible between click and madwifi. I don’t know how to solve it. I have
> tried to use kernel 2.4.26 in 06/22, and it didn’t solve the problem. Would you
> like to give me any help?