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

[Emmanuel E. <ee...@fr...>]

Heiko Zuerker a =E9crit:

> Manu "MaNS" ESCAR wrote:
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>> Hope every one had good time for this new-years eve! ;-))
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> At least I had, how was yours?

Great ;-))

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>> I'm working on the last hostap driver which is now 3 packages : the=20
>> driver, the utilities and the daemon. So I split the script in=20
>> build/scripts/ from hostap  to  hostap-driver, hostap-utils and=20
>> hostapd; then first build ... he couldn't find hostap script! In fact,=
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>> i had to manualy erase link in scripts/.buildorder and add the 3 new=20
>> ones to make it work ... also in rc1.d and rc2.d as i doesn't want an=20
>> mrproper ;-)
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>> The question is  ... : do i have to add that link (in=20
>> scripts/.buildorder) myself or is the build system supposed to ?=20
>> (sorry for that, i didn't used the build system since 0.6 ...)
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> Whenever you add / remove / rename any build scripts, you have to re-ru=
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> "make prepare". You can run this any time, it will only re-order the=20
> build scripts.

Nice ...


>> For the others, I guess the next time I run 'make mrproper unpack=20
>> menuconfig prepare build ...' the right links will be created in rc$.d=
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>> by the insserv thing!
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> Yes.
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>> I also modified things in scripts/configuration/ to reflect new=20
>> modifications
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>> Am I missing something ?
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> Did you also update the hostap.help file under configuration/help ?

Not yet, but thanks, think I should have missed it ;-)

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>> Another question is : there's 2 ways to build the cardbus driver,=20
>> depending on which pcmcia support we will use : kernel or pcmcia_cs.=20
>> Does any one knows a {clean, clever...} way to copy them both in the=20
>> filesystem so we could choose the right one, depending on wether we=20
>> use pcmcia_cs or not (when DL is booted on a host), as they both have=20
>> the same name!
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>> Maybe the question is non-sense as we use pcmcia_cs with no other choi=
ce?
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> At the moment we only support the pcmcia_cs drivers, since the kernel=20
> drivers are usually not as good. (Did that change lately ? )

Maybe as SuSE 9.0 seems to work quite fine with, but i know they often ma=
ke lots of kernel patches=20
... anyway it greatly simplifies things for me;-))

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>> Another thing is I'm on the way to add support for several other=20
>> wireless drivers (TI *ACX100, */Atmel AT76C5XXx, and Madwifi for=20
>> /Atheros AR500X chip sets) as i can have opportunity to hire some for=20
>> testing purpose. Is there any pb with madwifi as they are using a=20
>> binary-only HAL modul supported by Atheros ? the project seems GPLed=20
>> anyway ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/
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> As Friedrich wrote, we need to be carefull about the copyrights.
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I try to be carefull with that, that's why i submit it to You All ... as =
my English et legal stuff=20
(mis)understanding may lead me in bad ways ... ;-)

Cya

MaNU


> Heiko
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