Hi, I'm trying to transfrom an old laptop ( Pentium 200, 192MB ram) into a wireless access point !!
Hardware: wireless lan: sitecom wl-100i pc card ( prism54 chipset ( http://prism54.org) wired lan= 3ccfe575bt ( 3c59x module) Here is what I did: ( on a redhat 7.3 system) - download kernel source download patches from cvs leaf/src/bering-uclibc/configs/kernel/2.4.26/ ( using kernel.txt in cvs) + prism54 patch modify .config to add according to the http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/prism54-ng/README?rev=HEAD ( pccard support ( yenta_socket), lib/firmware_class - build kernel on the leaf laptop - ( on first run, it crashed because the ide-cd related modules were loaded from initrd ) , so I modified the leaf.cfg on the floppy to rmmod the modules loaded from the initrd insmod mine ( stored on the config floppy) the leaf.cfg stuff is very cute !! thanks Charles !! Modules loaded: firmware_class pci_hotplug (?? might not be needed) pcmcia_core yenta_socket ds 3c59x ( eth0) prism54 ( eth1) I quickly created a hotplug.lrp package with most of the hotplug package ( 2004-03-29) I had to make a few modifications to the hotplug package to let the firmware load - changed /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware to /lib/modules ( easier way to store the firmware, ( hack!! I know) - moved the /etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug to /etc/init.d/hotplug ( not used yet, no RCLINKS variable!) - changed only the /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug ( #!/bin/bash --> /bin/sh) and I got my firmware loaded !!! a grep bash /etc/hotplug/* returns a few lines but, the whole hotplug package might not run but the prism54 firmware loading works ! Later on I read Eric Spakman comment on the leaf homepage -- I think it could be possible to make a stripped down version of the hotplug package just to load the prism54 firmware Is it possible to tell the kernel to run something else than /sbin/hotplug ? and the steal the needed part of hotplug and put it in another package ( prism54.lrp ?? with the firmware file ??) Comments welcome ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
