Thanks for the reply Jeff. I simply need to recompile the wireless card driver to incorporate Canadian frequency hopping standards and (hopefully) allow it to run on an Eiger LRP box. As you can tell, I'm not very literate when it comes to compiling! I have a hazy understanding of the basic steps, but the vagaries are lost on me!
Are you saying I could do this on, say, a Redhat 7.1 box, so long as I have the correct libraries available? Brock > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Newmiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff > Newmiller > Sent: October 1, 2001 4:27 PM > To: Brock Nanson > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Charles Steinkuehler > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Development environment for Wireless LRP > > > On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Brock Nanson wrote: > > > Having looked through the archives etc., I'm left thinking I > will probably > > have to install Debian on a box somewhere so as to be able to compile > > drivers for the breezecom frequency hopping wireless card (now called > > Alvarion) I'm going to be using. > > Only if you have to compile userspace programs. > > > > > So the question is, should I be working on the 2.2.16 (potato I think) > > distribution or should I be looking at 2.2.19 (package name?) > that Dachstein > > appears to be built on? Is Dachstein mature enough to have > PCMCIA support > > etc., necessary for wireless use? My initial reaction is to go > with Eiger > > but...? > > You are quoting kernel version numbers... these are mostly independent of > the distribution version numbers. > > When it comes to the LEAF kernel, the Dachstein 2.2.19 linux kernels are > the best option right now... Charles has included instructions for > reproducing the kernel source and binaries, so you can get that far and > then modify further to get your drivers working. > > If you need to generate userspace pcmcia management programs as well, you > will either need to go with the Debian Slink distribution, or (if the > libraries in that are too old) go with David Douthitt's most recent Oxygen > LEAF, which uses the slightly more modern glibc 2.1 C standard libraries > than Slink's glibc 2.0 libraries. With the latter, you should be able to > generate glibc 2.1-based userspace code on a Debian Potato box that will > run on Oxygen. Check out leaf.sourceforge.net for David's developers > guide for some help on this. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... > Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. > Live Go... > Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing > Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with > /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. > rocks...2k > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
