[Voyage-linux] Voyage Linux Feature requests

[Punky Tse]

Hi Clint,

Welcome aboard!  It is always great to have more to involve in the 
development process.

About config change.  Do you mean to remove CONFIG_ATH*, so that madwifi 
and madwifi-ng module can be built in debian packages?  Currently, the I 
used marlow's madwifi kernel module package and it downloads the 
madwifi-old from cvs.  If found that there is still some difference in 
madwifi(csv) and madwifi-old(svn).  All latest in-kernel madwifi drivers 
are from madwifi-old.  Moreover, madwifi-ng still not have a proper 
versioned release that I comfortable with.  That's why I only offers 
madwifi-ng as a module package. 

- Punky

Clint Ricker wrote:

> 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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