On Thursday 11 September 2008, Walt Scrivens wrote: > That led me to Angstrom, and I spent many frustrating hours finally > getting WPA working. Alas 802.11g seems to be out of reach; I'm not > enough of a programmer to try to write a driver for the hardware I > have (Ambicom) and no one else seems to be interested in writing one.
I had a look back over your messages to this list and it seemed that your original WPA issue got solved in the end. Perhaps we need more work done to make things work out of the box with some cards. FWIW with development builds of Angstrom I can plug in my MA701, edit /etc/network/interfaces (only) and then restart wlan0 and it happily connects to a WPA encrypted AP. It's possible this works with stable builds, I haven't tested yet. FYI as it happens I am working on making the network settings application in Opie handle WPA settings in /etc/network/interfaces so you don't have to mess around editing it by hand. > Wellenreiter seems to be a forgotten issue, but I can get kismet to > work. The guy who wrote Wellenreiter has moved on, but if there are bugs then please report them (an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to me directly is fine). I can't promise that they will be fixed but I will at least take a look. Actually I just noticed the original Wellenreiter site has gone, I'll contact the original author and see if I can get it resurrected elsewhere. > My 3200 is in a drawer and I may take it out some day to > try to teach myself how to write a device driver in Linux, but it has > lost its usefulness for day-to-day functions at this point. Driver ability and availability often improves independent of Angstrom, since the kernel is upgraded from time to time. With the recent major wireless work in the kernel I would hope that wireless support is improving for devices that didn't already work out of the box previously. As far as actual driver development is concerned I am in the same boat as you - I'm not a kernel hacker. However I am willing to review (and hardware allowing, test) patches to improve all of this, and happy to help develop modifications to any system scripts or default config files if necessary, and in the case of Opie I'm definitely in a position to improve functionality of the UI. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
