MadWiFi 0.9.3 is out !!!

[Nick Kossifidis]

Na 'sai kala Panagiwth ;-)

Kati pou ksexasa na sas pw gia osous apo esas exete Redhat, exoun
kanei kati peiragmata sta binutils kai den mporoun na kanoun link to
binary hal me ton ypoloipo driver giati einai compiled se freebsd
(FreeBSD ELF). H lysh einai na kanete uudecode to binary HAL (sto
/hal/public), na kanete objcopy me ta palia binutils kai meta
uuencode. Gia thn i386 to patch einai to parakatw...

Index: hal/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu
===================================================================
--- hal/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu        (revision 2180)
+++ hal/public/i386-elf.hal.o.uu        (working copy)
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 */
 #define        ATH_HAL_VERSION "0.9.18.0"
 begin 644 hal.o
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Alla dystyxws den ginetai na to kanete apply kai na eiste nomimoi
kathoti to lisence tou binary HAL leei oti prepei na xrhsimopoieitai
unmodified. Opote perimenoume ap' ton Sam na vgalei ena kainourio HAL
pou tha einai compiled se Linux h na mas dwsei adeia na valoume ayto
to patch sto madwifi. (To parapanw patch exei vgei kai sthn
madwifi-devel opote einai ok na kykloforei)

Την 20/3/2007, Panagiotis Kranidiotis <kranidiotis at vatica.org> έγραψε:
> Στις 20-03-2007, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 13:11 +0200, ο/η Nick Kossifidis
> έγραψε:
> > Gia osous den to eidate xthes vghke h ekdosh 0.9.3 tou MadWiFi,
> > perissoteres plhrofories tha vreite edw ->
> > http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3
> >
> > O kwdikas ston driver exei strwsei arketa ap' to prohgoumeno release
> > kai twra ginetai compile kai me neoterous pyrhnes. Ta mona provlhmata
> > pou exoun anaferthei aforoun to kainourio HAL to opoio den anagnwrizei
> > swsta kapoies kartes (akoma den yparxei support gia tis 5424 -aytes
> > pou einai sta macbook klp- kai tis kainouries MIMO kartes ths
> > Atheros-) kata ta alla sas proteinw osoi exete Atheros na kanete to
> > update asap ;-)
> >
> > To epomeno release tha vgei poio syntoma elpizoume giati exoume arketa
> > pragmata upopsh, hdh yparxoun 2 branches sta opoia ginetai parallhla
> > douleia gia to epomeno release, sto ena branch (madwifi-hal-0.9.20.3)
> > ginetai douleia gia na enswmatosoume to teleytaio HAL pou vgalan sto
> > FreeBSD (sto HAL ayto to radar detection exei vgei ap' to HAL kai
> > ginetai ston driver opote prepei na ftiaxtei enas tetoios mhxanismos
> > sto kommati tou driver). Sto allo branch (madwifi-ng-refcount) ginetai
> > douleia gia to locking tou net80211 stack kai to node handling, ayto
> > se syndiasmo me to ticket 1143 tha strwsei arketa ton driver kai tha
> > vgoun ap th mesh arketa deadlocks. Perissotera infos edw ->
> > http://madwifi.org/wiki/DevDocs/Branches
> >
> > Twra oson afora to open source alternative pou doulevoume, o driver
> > tha onomazetai ath5k kai anamenetai na mpei ston pyrhna molis ton
> > strwsoume arketa. Se ayto doulevoume egw me ton Pavel Roskin kai pros
> > to paron ton kwdika mporeite na ton vreite sta -openhal branches (exei
> > ginei kai allh douleia sto git tree tou Pavel -opou exei katharistei o
> > kwdikas tou driver kai sto laptop mou -opou exw kanei merge ton kwdika
> > gia ola ta chipsets, ton exw katharisei kai exoun eksafanistei ta
> > callbacks opote den yparxei pleon HAL alla kateytheian calls stis
> > synartiseis). Sto kommati ayto exoume kolhsei ligo sto endianess (o
> > driver se PPC px doulevei kanonika, syndeetai alla den metaferontai
> > dedomena) kai telika paizei bug ston pyrhna kai perimenoume na ton
> > ftiaksoun mexri thn 2.6.22 opou kai kata pasa pithanothta tha mpei
> > ston pyrhna epishma to mac80211 stack (to d80211) paketo me tous
> > driver gia tis intel kartes klp.
> >
> > I'll keep you posted ;-)
> >
> > P.S. O Theo telika einai poly periergos typos, edwsa merika fixes ston
> > Reyk kai merikes synarthseis pou kaname implement, o Reyk tis evale
> > sto openbsd gia na ginei sync o kwdikas klp kai o Theo phge kai tis
> > evgale thn idia mera !!! Pathetic apla, o typos prepei na exei trelo
> > komplex me tous Linuxades, les kai exoume na xwrisoume tipota re
> > gmt...
> >
> > --
> > As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-)
> > Nick
> >
>
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As you read this post global entropy rises. Have Fun ;-)
Nick