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newarch2011

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 41

package install issue

since i have no ethernet connection i downloaded madwifi for my atheros card from aur and i got the tar.bz2. for some reason even though it tell sme it needs kernel 2.4 or HIGHER and a commenter posted it worked on a 3.0.x+ kernel i tried to edit the file since i get an error trying to make the package. i am messing this up somehow and i am unsure how to edit the makefile to install this package to get my wifi working? i even tried to do a make -B and it still failed.

packaged used:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49710

i downloaded the file marked sources since i have no active internet connection at the moment.

Last edited by newarch2011 (2011-10-06 22:14:34)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: package install issue

Are you using the PKGBUILD to install the package? I got no errors after I edited the makedepends (as suggested in the comments).

newarch2011

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 41

Re: package install issue

Are you using the PKGBUILD to install the package? I got no errors after I edited the makedepends (as suggested in the comments).

where do i edit those?

my issue is also that doing makepkg it tries to connect to download the tar.bz2 which i have to download on anothe rpc as i have NO internet connection on this machine AT ALL.

Last edited by newarch2011 (2011-10-06 23:25:53)

karol

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Re: package install issue

where do i edit those?

You need to edit the part where it says

makedepends=(blah blah blah)

my issue is also that doing makepkg it tries to connect to download the tar.bz2 which i have to download on anothe rpc as i have NO internet connection on this machine AT ALL.

If you provide the sources in the same directory as the PKGBUILD you won't have to download them.

[karol@black madwifi]$ ls -1
madwifi-0.9.4.4136.tar.bz2
madwifi-ng.install
PKGBUILD

[karol@black madwifi]$ makepkg -si
==> Making package: madwifi 0.9.4.4136-3 (pią, 7 paź 2011, 01:31:18 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
  -> Found madwifi-0.9.4.4136.tar.bz2
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    madwifi-0.9.4.4136.tar.bz2 ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
  -> Extracting madwifi-0.9.4.4136.tar.bz2 with bsdtar
==> Removing existing pkg/ directory...
==> Starting build()...

newarch2011

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Registered: 2011-09-18

Posts: 41

Re: package install issue

i got it edited andinstalled but now i still cant get it to work with my atheros card and i never get a wlan interface nor an eth1 like i got with the old ipw2200