Re: Trying to compile NetworkManager

[Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>]

On Thu 07 Apr 2005 14:30, Dan Williams wrote:

> > I'm running Fedora-3 with KDE.
> > I've been trying to get a recent version of NM working on my laptop.
> > (I was told this might help get NM running with my Orinoco Gold PCMCIA
> > card.)
> >
> > I first tried to install NetworkManager-0.4-6.cvs20050404.i386.rpm
>
> You probably don't want to use that package version.  NetworkManager has
> two branches now, STABLE and HEAD.  The only real difference between the
> two is that HEAD targets dbus 0.3 and HAL 0.5.  These versions of HAL
> and dbus are not available on Fedora Core 3, and so you have to use
> STABLE for FC3.  I've been quite actively backporting fixes to the
> STABLE branch of NetworkManager, and even some new features are done on
> STABLE and up-ported to HEAD.
>
> HEAD = NetworkManager-0.4
> STABLE = NetworkManager-0.3.4

Apologies for what is probably a very simple question -
but how exactly does one get the STABLE CVS version?

Incidentally, I found it was very simple to enable scanning with my card,
by installing the latest version of orinoco_cs (orinoco-0.15rc1.tar.gz).
I had resisted doing this, 
because I do not like to run outside" kernel modules.
But in this case it turned out to be remarkably easy -
"make install" installed everything in the right place in /lib/modules/
replacing the previous version.

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