Re: [Devil-linux-develop] latest changes to 1.3.. more updates :)

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

Diego Torres wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:26:14AM -0400, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
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>>I actually had this on my list, but there's some more work to be done. 
>>The are new components for hostap (like wpa_supplicant, or whatever the 
>>name was).
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>wpa_supplicant & friends aren't need for normal operation, but... who
>defines normal? :)
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It would be great if you could add it, since WPA improves the wireless 
security.

>if you use hostap, you should copy the drivers from hostap-drivers-0.2.4
>to the pcmcia-cs package, then compile. hostap enables firmware
>uploading in a very safe way (does version&compatibility checkings)
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>if you use linux-wlan-ng, disable the kernel module version. somewhere
>in time, it provided prism2dl, that updates the firmware but can kill
>your wireless card if you choose the wrong firmware version.
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>don't use both at the same time. this is important. there are cards
>supported with both packages, and wont work like you want if you have
>two modules at the same time loaded.
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>firmware upgrade is useful because you can make your board act as an AP,
>enable WDSS and a lot of more advanced stuff (bugfixing, for example).
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>if you're using a motherboard with problems on the APIC (and then the
>information from irq lines is wrong/missing), you probably couldn't use
>pcmcia-cs, and should stick to the in-kernel pcmcia support. then hostap
>is not an option for you, and you should use linux-wlan-ng (my case).
>this is because hostap can't be used with newer kernels (>2.4.24).
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Did you already do a test compile with the newer hostap ?
Everything works fine?

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  Heiko Zuerker
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