Jeremy Monnet wrote:
On 1/13/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matt Darcy wrote:
Jeremy Monnet wrote:
I haven't seen (hope I didn't miss it) any related topics for
wireless, such as compilation of wireless-tools, and scripts for the
wireless to be setup at startup. Not a big issue at all (I have it
running on lfs 6.0 with kernel 2.6.14 for an IPW2200), but I wonder if
this is plan to add this in a next book, or if there is a reason for
not supporting it at all ? Because of course having something working
doesn't mean at all for me that I did the right thing at the right
place ...
Truthfull,
Take into account the other cards, the other specific versions required
to get the cards working, ndis etc etc and it would just be unmaintainable.
Truth being told in my opinion anyone who is using LFS should be able to
read up on the basics of installing wirless connectivity, and there are
bunch of people on the lists/irc who have done it who will help out, but
as it stands I don't think its realistic or fair to expect LFS/BLFS to
cover wirless connectivity.
Matt.
I don't think he was asking to support various wireless networking
hardware or how to setup the drivers - just instructions on how to use
wireless_tools. If so, then I think it shouldn't be too much to add a
single page to the networking section describing how to install
wireless_tools, use encryption, etc...
That's right. Of course it will not be possible to support all kind of
hardware (BTW same problem with video cards ...)
I thought of the wireless-tools compiling in itself, and of the
startup scripts. Things basic and generic such as adding a
WIRELESS=(YES|NO), ESSID=?, WEP=?, variables in the ifconfig.eth1/ipv4
file for example.
Same thing for other devices, nothing is said about ethernet cards,
but configuration scripts for ethernet networking are present
nevertheless. :-)
Jeremy
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As I tried to suggest in my earlier post,
wirless tools has a fair amount of relevence to cards and drivers, again
to use your example of the ipw2200 cards, search for
udev/wirless-tools/kernel driver compatabiliy, you can't always use the
latest wirless-tools and you can't always use stable to get your card to
work, I don't see a need for it in blfs (however thats the editors call)
what about ndis ? does that get included in wirless support page ?
The boot scripts in lfs and blfs-bootscripts do not support wirless card
parameters such as ESSID or encryption so putting them in there will do
nothing on most cards. Also wirless tools is a real fussy program with
regard to gcc versions (its getting much better) I think the blfs books
is tough for the editors to do a good job with due to the sheer volume
of packages in it and I believe a usefull wirless network page in the
book would require a good deal of maintenance, however I don't work on
blfs so its down to the editors, but thats my view on it.
Matt
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