Re: [Devil-linux-develop] new hostap driver and more ...

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Manu "MaNS" ESCAR wrote:
> Hope every one had good time for this new-years eve! ;-))

At least I had, how was yours?

> I'm working on the last hostap driver which is now 3 packages : the 
> driver, the utilities and the daemon. So I split the script in 
> build/scripts/ from hostap  to  hostap-driver, hostap-utils and hostapd; 
> then first build ... he couldn't find hostap script! In fact, i had to 
> manualy erase link in scripts/.buildorder and add the 3 new ones to make 
> it work ... also in rc1.d and rc2.d as i doesn't want an mrproper ;-)
> 
> The question is  ... : do i have to add that link (in 
> scripts/.buildorder) myself or is the build system supposed to ? (sorry 
> for that, i didn't used the build system since 0.6 ...)

Whenever you add / remove / rename any build scripts, you have to re-run 
"make prepare". You can run this any time, it will only re-order the 
build scripts.

> For the others, I guess the next time I run 'make mrproper unpack 
> menuconfig prepare build ...' the right links will be created in rc$.d 
> by the insserv thing!

Yes.

> I also modified things in scripts/configuration/ to reflect new 
> modifications
> 
> Am I missing something ?

Did you also update the hostap.help file under configuration/help ?

> Another question is : there's 2 ways to build the cardbus driver, 
> depending on which pcmcia support we will use : kernel or pcmcia_cs. 
> Does any one knows a {clean, clever...} way to copy them both in the 
> filesystem so we could choose the right one, depending on wether we use 
> pcmcia_cs or not (when DL is booted on a host), as they both have the 
> same name!
> 
> Maybe the question is non-sense as we use pcmcia_cs with no other choice?

At the moment we only support the pcmcia_cs drivers, since the kernel 
drivers are usually not as good. (Did that change lately ? )

> Another thing is I'm on the way to add support for several other 
> wireless drivers (TI *ACX100, */Atmel AT76C5XXx, and Madwifi for 
> /Atheros AR500X chip sets) as i can have opportunity to hire some for 
> testing purpose. Is there any pb with madwifi as they are using a 
> binary-only HAL modul supported by Atheros ? the project seems GPLed 
> anyway ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

As Friedrich wrote, we need to be carefull about the copyrights.

Heiko