From: Alex L. <Ly...@ly...> - 2002-05-19 17:21:33
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Hi, I have two questions: 1] Is there any easy and established way for adding support of hardware drivers that aren't included with DL? Specifically, I'm trying to add driver support for Prism based Wireless cards. 2] According to the included docs of the DL distribution, there's a way to rebuild the ISO using the CVS source. Therefore, building in additional driver support, etc. I've been trying to locate the CVS source to do this but have been unsuccessful. Is the CVS source readily available for download? There is another project (linux-wlan Project at http://www.linux-wlan.com) which have developed the necessary drivers for Prism based wireless cards. The package currently supports the Intersil 802.11b Prism2, Prism2.5, and Prism3 reference designs for PCMCIA, PCI, and USB. Additionally, the package includes support for PLX9052 based PCI to PCMCIA adapter with a few different PCMCIA cards. However, it is rather difficult to build these drivers, much less add their support to DL, without the CVS source in question. I'm not currently an active developer, but if this isn't something that isn't already supported I'd be more than happy to work on it. -Alex |
From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2002-05-19 18:30:26
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Alex Ly wrote: | 1] Is there any easy and established way for adding support of hardware | drivers that aren't included with DL? Specifically, I'm trying to add driver | support for Prism based Wireless cards. Yes, you just have to customize our build system. | | 2] According to the included docs of the DL distribution, there's a way to | rebuild the ISO using the CVS source. Therefore, building in additional | driver support, etc. I've been trying to locate the CVS source to do this | but have been unsuccessful. Is the CVS source readily available for | download? There is no CVS source for download, you have to checkout the CVS stuff via CVS. Here ( https://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=34096 ) is described how to do it. The wireless support is on our todo-list, but there is no plan when we will integrate it. | I'm not currently an active developer, but if this isn't something that | isn't already supported I'd be more than happy to work on it. That would be great. We're always happy, when the people send us their changes. - -- cu ~ Heiko We are Penguin, Resistance is futile! http://www.devil-linux.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6-2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAjzn7ikACgkQzRJAyNsjWPmnVACdG8k+9kP51Wyp4OekoylXwytY JVYAoJOgU9mi6FU46XW6VUIXh6JWVDtM =x842 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |