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Dreamplug to 3.7 – and an Obsolete Patch..

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Just updated the Dreamplug kernel to 3.7, and – although I don’t use it – decided to see if the Marvell-supplied 8688_UAP (Access Point) patch still worked.. Not surprisingly, the patch worked, but the compilation failed: CC [M]  drivers/net/wireless/libertas_uap/uap_main.o drivers/net/wireless/libertas_uap/uap_main.c: In function ‘uap_init_sw’: drivers/net/wireless/libertas_uap/uap_main.c:446:44: warning: passing argument 3 of ‘netlink_kernel_create’ makes pointer from integer without a cast … Continue reading →

Finally – 3.7 is out..

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Finally, kernel 3.7 is released… I updated my main x86_64 system, and all seems to be OK, as expected.    The latest NVIDIA driver – 310.19 – compiles and runs OK, and VMware 9.0.1 compiles after the usual workaround for version.h: # ln -s /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h /usr/src/linux-3.7/include/linux/version.h Note that this example is for the official source from kernel.org.    You … Continue reading →