ORBIT-USER: About g++ and libmac for new image 2.3

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On 9/17/07, Xiangpeng Jing <xjing at winlab.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>   I have twp questions with the new 2.3 image:
> (1) Is g++ supported? When I compiled code working with old image, it complains:
> make: g++: Command not found
> I tried to install g++ but there are dependency issues.

You can try:

apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

If you have problems in doing the upgrade then please try
baseline-dev.ndz instead. That image should at least have a compiler
and even kernel headers. I'll work on a new image in the meantime with
more updated packages.

> (2) Is LIBMAC supported in image 2.3? When I try to use libmac, error
> code 95 returned:
> Error, error code:95 and Operation not supported
> Exception: Error while calling LIBMAC get_ifinfo function.

No its not. The last supported version of MadWifi that had libmac
support was 0.9.2. The problem lies in the fact that MadWifi driver is
out of ioctl space for adding features as was implemented in libmac.
Additionally in Linux wireless are picking up radiotap as a standard
so it is unnecessary to keep expanding libmac. Last but not least we
will eventually switch focus to ath5k, the new completely open driver
for Atheros devices.

For a primer on Radiotap on MadWifi please read:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/DevDocs/RadiotapHeader

  Luis