[Pkg-xen-devel] xen kernel headers, new kernel modules with a-i

[Henning Sprang]

Jean Daniel wrote:
> [...] 
> apt-get install madwifi-source madwifi-tools
> m-a a-i madwifi
> modprobe ath_pci ...
> 
> Except that I do not have the sources nor the headers of my kernel.
> 
> "apt-get source xen-linux-system-$(uname -r)" copied
> linux-2.6-2.6.21{,6.diff.gz,6.dsc,orig.tar.gz} in my home dir, but
> "m-a a-i madwifi -k linux-2.6-2.6.21" would not work any better...

I have troubles to follow the last paragraph - you should not need to do
any apt-get source and whatever when using m-i, or did I get something
wrong?

Still, _normally_ it should work with just m-a a-i madwifi, right.

But you run a kernel that's hopelessly outdeated in lenny, and
currently, as there exist no Kernel patches for Kernels > 2.6.20, there
is in fact no Xen kernel in Debian lenny and unstable at the moment. So,
you are out of luck.


> I read (ok, grepped) the last year of the mailing list archive without
> much results.
> 
> How can one do to install the madwifi kernel modules on a debian xen kernel?

Maybe wait until the Xen developers have their (hopefully sometimes
complete, currently there is only domU support, and many important
features missing) stuff in upstream finally, and then use this kernel
with the "normal", included wifi drivers?

Henning