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#350051: rt2500-source: installs files in wrong places,
which was filed against the rt2500-source package.
It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
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make
make install
leaves you with an alias in /etc/modprobe.conf , instead
of somewhere within /etc/modprobe.d , as I believe it should.
Also, the compiled rt2500.ko module is left in
/lib/modules/2.6.12/extra/rt2500.ko instead of somewhere
below /lib/modules/2.6.12-1-686/ as it should.
Consequently, modprobe does not find the module,
and nothing functions.
This is because you are not using the Debian way to build the modules.
Please have a look at /usr/share/doc/rt2500-source/README.Debian
Granted. However a note to that effect should be included
somewhere obvious. For instance, when you run
make install
it should echo "Debian does not use make install. Please see
/usr/share/doc/rt2500-source/README.Debian"
All documentation should be as local as possible,
and there should be pointers to the documentation from wherever
people will be looking. It's really
not quite appropriate to have a directory that gives incorrect
installation instructions without even a note that there are
distribution-specific instructions.
I did indeed look at /usr/share/doc/rt2500-source/README.Debian
after the fact. It was quite helpful, but it still leaves
a documentation bug: the lack of a pointer to the relevant
documentation from the source directory.
I know, someone will say "But you should always look at
/usr/share/doc/*/README.Debian!" That's correct,
but the wrong attitude: that's the attitude of a
Debian expert. Real computer systems need to be
designed for people who aren't Debian experts,
because there are 6 billion of them and a few thousand
experts.
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