[Devil-linux-develop] HostAP driver works under DL

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

Hi Heiko,

thanks to your help i have successfully build DL 0.6 from cvs and i get 
the hostap driver (cvs too) work fine on my notebook. :-))

I have a little more job to do before releasing that work :

    - test it with a pci wireless card and with the ap mod enabled (mode 
master), it's my goal !

    - there is two builds of the pccard driver : with or without 
pcmcia-cs installed; i only tested the second version and don't know if 
it is possible to integrate both as the pcmcia-cs version is compiled by 
that package and the kernel version is compiled with hostap distrib. :-? 
Do they both install in the same directory, with the same name??

    - i had to make a new patch for pcmcia-cs-3.2.4 as the one shipped 
with the hostap sources was for 3.1.34; this patch is needed during 
build process if CONFIG_PCCMCIA-CS=y and is applied against pcmcia-cs 
package; how to integrate it cleanly in the hostap files (for ex during 
make unpack), before the build process is launched ?

    - make some useful documentation (which comes with the tarball) to 
copy in DL's doc dir (make install does nothing about it)

    - write a mini howto about configuring a wireless card with that 
driver on DL

    - it seems some optionnal tools (sniffer, daemon, ...) are provided 
with the driver and are not compiled with the main Makefile; i had to 
evaluate their use to integrate them in the process.


I hope releasing something very soon as i'll be very busy next week .

Any comments are welcome ;-)

Regards