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#14915

Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 10 Months ago
I see that elrepo recently updated the driver to 1.0.1.9: elrepo.org/bugs/view.php?id=71 Any chance of a rebuilt RPM for the ClearOS repo? The source rpm is here: elrepo.org/linux/elrepo/el5/SRPMS/atl1e-...1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm Thanks, Fredrik

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#14917

Re: Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 10 Months ago

Hi Frederik - sorry the build fails here on my machine so i've not been able to update it.

Code:

In file included from /home/devel/rpmbuild/BUILD/atl1e-kmod-1.0.1.9/_kmod_build_/src/at_common.h:5,

                 from /home/devel/rpmbuild/BUILD/atl1e-kmod-1.0.1.9/_kmod_build_/src/at_common_main.c:2:

/home/devel/rpmbuild/BUILD/atl1e-kmod-1.0.1.9/_kmod_build_/src/kcompat.h:1575: error: redefinition of 'struct napi_struct'

make[1]: *** [/home/devel/rpmbuild/BUILD/atl1e-kmod-1.0.1.9/_kmod_build_/src/at_common_main.o] Error 1

make: *** [_module_/home/devel/rpmbuild/BUILD/atl1e-kmod-1.0.1.9/_kmod_build_/src] Error 2

make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.6.1.v5-i686'

error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90587 (%build)

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#14918

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 10 Months ago

Ah, I see. I did a bit of googling and it seems lite this is a problem with newer CentOS versions. I Wonder how the elrepo guys managed to build it.

I found a blog post with a fix:

blog.lkc.idv.hk/?p=338

Basically he seems to comment out the definition of the struct in the atheros source code. I am not skilled enough to figure out if this might be a problem or if the workaround is OK.

Code:



############# Solution ##############

I solved it by deleting some code in kcompat.h

the following were deleted

#if ( LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,24) )

/* NAPI API changes in 2.6.24 break everything */

struct napi_struct {

/* used to look up the real NAPI polling routine */

int (*poll)(struct napi_struct *, int);

int weight;

};

and



#endif /* _KCOMPAT_H_ */

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#14920

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 10 Months ago

Update:

I found out that the src rpm in the bug report is patched:

Code:



--- atl1e-1.0.1.9/src/kcompat.h.old	2010-07-04 00:40:45.000000000 +0300

+++ atl1e-1.0.1.9/src/kcompat.h	2010-07-04 00:41:56.000000000 +0300

@@ -1572,11 +1572,11 @@

 /*****************************************************************************/

 #if ( LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,24) )

 /* NAPI API changes in 2.6.24 break everything */

-struct napi_struct {

-	/* used to look up the real NAPI polling routine */

-	int (*poll)(struct napi_struct *, int);

-	int weight;

-};

+//struct napi_struct {

+//	/* used to look up the real NAPI polling routine */

+//	int (*poll)(struct napi_struct *, int);

+//	int weight;

+//};

 #ifdef NAPI

 extern int __kc_adapter_clean(struct net_device *, int *);

 #define netif_rx_complete(netdev, napi) netif_rx_complete(netdev)

So could you try that one?

elrepo.org/bugs/file_download.php?file_id=7&type=bug

Regards,

Fredrik

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#14946

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 10 Months ago

With a little help from google I managed to build this from the bugreport rpm (in a virtualbox install of ClearOS 5.2):

Code:



rpm -ivv atl1e-kmod-1.0.1.9-1.el5.cs.src.rpm

cd  /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/

rpmbuild -bb --target=i686 atl1e-kmod.spec

The created rpms are found under /usr/src/redhat/RPMS

Due to a bug in rpm and elrepos handling of that it is recommended to uninstall the old driver first.

So I went to the actual machine that needed the driver and did the following:

Code:

yum erase kmod-atl1e-PAE-1.0.1.0-3.el5.elrepo

yum --nogpgcheck localinstall kmod-atl1e-PAE-1.0.1.9-1.el5.cs.i686.rpm

Did a reboot and so far it seems to have worked.

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#14953

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 10 Months ago
Great detective work, and thanks for posting the solution!

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#26092

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 1 Month ago
I've just spent the last 36hrs trying to get my mobo ar8131 working to no avail. Could you please tell a newbie how to do this. There's lots of posts about this nic and I've tried several of their 'fixes' without success. thanks, Robert

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#26093

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 1 Month ago

Ok i've applied the patch - you can find the newer RPM here:-
ftp://timburgess.net/repo/clearos/5.2/os/kmod-atl1e-1.0.1.9-3.clearos.i686.rpm
or PAE version here
ftp://timburgess.net/repo/clearos/5.2/os/kmod-atl1e-PAE-1.0.1.9-3.clearos.i686.rpm

Robert, can you post the output of the following two commands?

Code:

lspci

cat /etc/modprobe.conf

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#26094

Re:Atheros atl1e updated in elrepo 1 Year, 1 Month ago
thanks, excuse my newbie ignorance.....but what's the difference between the two repos? Got so disgusted, I'm reinstalling the system and will run the commands when back up.