[Voyage-linux] Voyage Linux Feature requests

[Clint Ricker]

Hello everyone!  I'm new to Voyage Linux, but definitely not new to 
Linux; I am a longtime sysadmin who is now in charge of a some wireless 
projects for my company, an ISP located in the Eastern US.  Since we are 
a linux shop, I am planning on using the WRAP boards and have landed on 
Voyage since it is really the only suitable distribution that seems to 
be actively developed in any sort of open manner.  So, we'll have about 
2 engineers working half time on this for the next few months, and will 
contribute what we get.  Thank you, everyone, for the work that you've 
done--it looks great and seems to be solid and functional.

The only thing that I would tweak at this point is removing all of the 
atheros drivers from within the included kernel.  They are currently 
compiled as modules (2.6.15); the problem with this being simply the 
dual reason that the same functionality / code is supplied through the 
madwifi packages.  However, having the modules compiled into the kernel 
breaks at least compilation of madwifi-ng (I assume madwifi-old as well) 
and possibly the existing madwifi modules???.  However, madwifi-ng 
compiles and runs great with the atheros modules removed from within the 
kernel tree compile.  (I didn't try the existing madwifi/madwifi-ng 
package with the atheros drivers removed from the kernel; madwifi-ng 
wasn't working for me when I tried it with the supplied 
voyage-linux-2.6.15 kernel).

I've attached an update .config for the voyage linux 2.6.15 kernel; this 
simply removes the atheros drivers from within the kernel.  It also sets 
the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION to "-486-voyage"; this fixed a problem that I 
had in compiling modules against the kernel (MADWIFI) being set with 
kernel version 2.6.15 rather than 2.6.15-486-voyage and subsequently not 
loading cleanly. 

I'll try to throw the debian packages together for both the updated 
kernel and madwifi-ng modules and tools as soon as I figure out debian 
packages (I'm a redhat RPM veteran of 9 years now but have never learned 
debian packaging that well).

Thank you,
Clint
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