[Voyage-linux] Custom kernel for voyage and other small problems

[Punky Tse]

Francois, 

There has been some problems reported about the high packet loss when
running WDS and bridge using madwifi driver.  voyage-0.1 is using the
madwifi
cvs snapshot at 20050109.  Unfortunately, madwifi still does not
provide any solid "versioned" release, so it is unlikely to know which
snapshot is considered as stable.

To be honest, I am quite happy with the hostap and prism54 drivers. 
At lease, there are no such problem reported (because fewer and fewer
people are using it?).

For temperature sensor, it didn't work out on wrap.  Before 0.1
release, I considered to drop them from the kernel, but I finally
decided to include it.  It will benefit somebody when they install
voyage in their old pentium 3 motherboard with a temperature sensor.

I didn't (or forgot) to enable USB support in the kernel, so you will
have to wait for a new kernel update or a new voyage-0.2pre release. 
But this will not happen soon.

I had evaluated lighttpd, tried to build a deb package but fail on cpp
preprocessor check.  Can you compare it with thttpd?  I should have
said in the list that I planned to use thttpd in the coming voyage
releases.

- Punky
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:55:04 +0200, Francois
<fdelawarde at wirelessmundi.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I would like to be able to compile a custom kernel for the voyage to test
> latest madwifi from cvs and add few other custom options, anyone knows a
> quick procedure to cross-compile for WRAP platforms, any patches to apply
> for reboot problems or things like that?
> 
> Had a few performance problems with madwifi (signal power varying, very slow
> DHCP UDP broadcast, and speed/stability problems in 802.11g mode). Anyone
> suffered something similar and could give me a hint?
> 
> Did someone succeeded in getting temperature sensor to work in I2C secondary
> bus (LM77 not working for me with lm_sensors)? What about USB?
> 
> Another thing, I tested lighttpd with php on a wrap board, it works like a
> charm, looks secure and supports cgi and fast-cgi for those who need speed,
> I would recommend voyage users needing http server using it for a possible
> web interface.
> 
> Thanks for help!!! ;)
> 
> Francois.
> 
> PS: Don't forget to patch dnsmasq to the latest, as bugtrack just informed
> of dns vulnerabilities for current version used in voyage!
> 
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