ORBIT-USER: Kernel module.. need help and suggestion

[Mesut Ali Ergin]

Arinto,

You may want to give us a bit more detail on the level of performance 
you expect from the protocol you intend to develop. Depending on that, 
you might not have to modify kernel source to write your protocol. Maybe 
you can live with packet capturing libraries (e.g. libpcap) and code in 
userspace.

For differences and their potential effects on your design, you can 
inspect changelogs from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 at 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ if you like. Alternatively, 
upgrading baseline kernel to 2.6.15 without effecting most of the ORBIT 
stuff should not be a big problem.

Regards,

--
MAE


Arinto Murdopo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to get suggestion from you all. Actually I need to 
> implement wireless protocol and later I need to upload this as a debian 
> package to ORBIT. Currently I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 which is Debian based 
> operating system. The kernel version is 2.6.15-27-386. And refer to 
> previuos post, the ORBIT environment uses kernel version 2.6.12. Is that 
> OK to use the 2.6.15-kernel as the development platform? The protocol 
> need to grab packet data structure from kernel module, I'm afraid that 
> there will be some error if I develop the wireless protocol using kernel 
> that has different version compared to ORBIT testbed's node. Anybody has 
> do this before?
> 
> Actually I have installed the 2.6.12 kernel in my linux box, but the 
> problem is most of the devices don't work properly and even the lan card 
> doesn't function properly. And I have already behind the schedule for my 
> project and I need to re-schedule my plan.
> 
> Thank you for your attention.
> 
> Arinto