On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:16:48 +0800 Richard Dale wrote:
> Before I go through the pain of setting up an environment kernel to compile > the orinoco & pcmcia for use with LEAF, has anybody done this and brought > the Orinoco driver up-to-date? I compiled v0.11b for rc2, but not rc3. If you would like rc2 copies, I can post them for you. Setting up the environment is, IMO, the easy part. For kernel and module building, you don't have to be concerned about glibc versions so any recent linux version with kernel sources and glibc 2.95 or 3.x is perfectly fine for building a Bering kernel. The tricky part--if you want your modules to be compatible with the stock rc3 kernel--is applying all the correct patches[1]. > I'm having some timeout errors that I tink might be fixed by a later version > of the module... I hope. I experienced poor performance and lots of Tx errors between Bering rc2 with orinco silver cards and a prism2 peer in adhoc mode. More details in http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg08621.html Part of the problem initially was an interrupt conflict. Even after I fixed the interrupts, performance remained poor. I compiled the orinoco v0.11b drivers, but they didnt' seem to help any. I don't remember the exact performance impact, but overall there wasn't any significant improvement. (I still have copies of the rc2 modules and the scripts I used to build them if you're interested.) I have stopped using the SMC prism2 card, so fixing the problem fell off my priority list. It looks like 0.12b and 0.13a are now out[2], so maybe one of those would work better. You might find the 'make_bering_kernel' shell script I posted to http://fritzfam.com/brad/leaftmp/ useful if you decide to build updated Bering rc3 modules. It downloads the 2.4.18 kernel, applies the same patches as the stock Bering rc3 kernel, and builds the kernel and modules. As written it doesn't apply the freeswan patches correctly (easy fix, but I've been too lazy), but if you need a concrete example to help understand Jacques' rc3 kernel patching readme[3], it might be useful. --Brad [1] http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/rc3/patches/kernel/ [2] http://www.ozlabs.com/people/dgibson/dldwd/ [3] http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bering/rc3/patches/kernel/README.txt ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
