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A fix to rc.wlan and updates to the README file.

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@ -66,43 +66,42 @@ Some of the subdirectories have empty README files. This means we haven't
gotten to the contents of these directories. The empty README is just a trick
to prevent CVS from pruning the directory.
This software has currently been tested on the following
configurations:
This release was tested on the following configurations:
Intel:
linux-2.2.9 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 + RedHat6.0
linux-2.2.12 + pcmcia-cs-3.0.14 + RedHat6.1
linux-2.3.99-pre9 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.11 + RedHat 6.2
linux-2.2.16 + pcmcia-cs-
linux-2.2.19 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.27
linux-2.2.16 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.8 + RedHat6.0
linux-2.2.19 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.22 + RedHat6.2
linux-2.4.7 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.28 + Debian woody
PowerPC:
linux-2.2.12 + pcmcia-cs-3.1.12 + LinuxPPC2000
linux-2.2.13 + an embedded target no-one's heard of ;-)
NOTE: This release supports building three different drivers:
prism2_cs Driver for prism2.x PCMCIA cards.
prism2_plx Driver for prism2.x PCMCIA cards when used with Eumitcom
and Global Sun PLX based PCI adapters.
prism2_pci Driver for prism2.5 (ISL3874) based _native_ PCI cards.
These are most commonly found as embedded mini-pci cards
in notebook PCs.
The following build and install instructions assume you have configured source
code for both the linux kernel package and pcmcia-cs package installed on your
system. It's important that the configured code for these packages match
code for:
The linux kernel, and (if you want to build the prism2_cs driver)
pcmcia-cs.
It's important that the configured code for these packages match
the kernel and pcmcia-cs you currently have running.
Build Instructions:
************ WARNING for 0.1.8-pre11 users!!!!!
If you have installed a version prior to -pre11, you
_MUST_ remove the old module files from /lib/modules/<version>/pcmcia
and /lib/modules/<version>/net. You MUST also remove the aliases
from your /etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf file as well.
Starting with -pre11 we're going back to building just a single
module. (Seemed to be what most contributors wanted)
*************
1) untar the package using the command:
tar zxvf linux-wlan-ng-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
2) Make sure you have configured kernel and pcmcia sources on your system.
Yes, even if you are using a PLX or PCI card, we still require the
pcmcia-cs code to be present. We'll remove this dependency in a future
revision.
2) Make sure you have configured kernel and (optionally) pcmcia sources on
your system. Note that if you are _only_ building the prism2_pci or
prism2_plx drivers you don't need the pcmcia-cs source tree.
3) To clean up any unwanted files accidentally included in the tar package,
run 'make clean'. If make clean behaves badly (infinite loop, for
@ -158,3 +157,16 @@ A) You must make sure that the drivers get loaded at boot time and that the
Also, don't forget to set up your resolv.conf to point at your DNS server.
B) If you are daring, you can try out the rc.wlan and wlan.conf scripts that
have been added with this release. They do work, and they are installed
into your */init.d directory and /etc directory. We don't currently
create the soft-link from the runlevel directory to the wlan startup
script because the distributions vary too much in this respect. You'll
need to create the soft-link yourself. Just make sure it is early in the
process, namely, before the the network interfaces are brought up.
The actual setup of the SSID and such is in the file /etc/wlan.conf.
Note that you'll also need to add an modules.conf alias statement
for the driver that you wish to load (pci or plx), we don't explicitly
load a module in init.d/wlan because we don't know which one you want. ;-)