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Re: Spectrum-cs and Linux 2.6.11: msg#00014

Subject: Re: Spectrum-cs and Linux 2.6.11
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I just replaced Fedora Core 2 on my laptop with Gentoo, and got a 2.6.11
> kernel with it. Having run the spectrum_cs driver previously to support
> my Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B card, I downloaded orinoco-0.15rc2 again and
> tried to get it to work.
> 
> However, the driver didn't compile cleanly against the 2.6.11 code, due
> to some PCI functions having changed. When I fixed those, the driver did
> compile, but pagefaulted (NULL pointer dereference) in the kernel when
> requesting firmware.
> 
> I fixed that as well, and now the driver runs fine, so I thought I'd
> post a patch to the list with my changes. I doubt they work on a 2.4
> kernel, however, and I don't know if I may have broken something else as
> well.

This fix is already in CVS.

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