[orbit-user] New baseline - baseline-8.2.ndz

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

Documentation from:

http://orbit-lab.org/wiki/Documentation/SupportedImages/baseline-8.2.ndz

This image has everything baseline baseline-7.11.ndz but we upgaded:

    * compat-wireless-2.6 and the way its used (more on this below)
    * MadWifi to 0.9.4
    * apt-get dist-upgrade, except for the kernel (notes below)

The /misc/src/ is a NFS automount to commonly used source code
experimenters may rely upon. We take advantage of this and keep a
wireless-testing.git repository there updated daily to reflect
upstream. With the compat-wireless package installed on the baseline
you can now easily get the latest updates by taking the following
steps:

  cd /usr/src/compat-wireless-2.6/
  # Get the latest compat-wireless-2.6 changes first
  git-pull
  # Now lets pull the latest changes from our local GIT_TREE on the
NFS directory
  /.scripts/admin-update.sh
  # If we want to try to hack on any drivers or mac80211 we can do so now
  # Once you are done compile the wireless subsystem
  make
  # Finally install it
  make install
  # Now to load your drivers, first you must unload your current
wireless subsystem drivers
  make unlaod
  # Now load the driver you need, whether it be ath5k, or ipw2200
  modprobe ath5k
  modprobe ipw2200

You can switch between MadWifi and ath5k easily:

To load MadWifi:

athload madwifi

To load ath5k:

athload ath5k

Notes
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    * Size:

        The image is now 280 MB, which is a considerable size
increase. We will work on reducing this but some compromises will need
to be be made.

    * Bridging:

        The baseline has bridge-utils, some users were using a
"specialized" image for bridging but this is unnecessary.

    * Issues with 2.6.24:

        Debian has now moved from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24. If you try to
apt-get dist-upgrade you will be moved to 2.6.24, but there is a bug
with 2.6.24 that affects our nodes. The oops happens before serial
access is even available so the only way to see this is if you have a
VGA monitor connected. Just for reference the following is the oops
and it will be looked into.

The oops bellow was transcribed from a picture. The same oops occurs
separate nodes.

GRUB Loading stage 1.5.


GRUB loading, please wait...
Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.

BUG: Int 6: CR2 00000000
        EDI 00000000 ESI 00001000 EBP 00000020 ESP c0373f54
        EBX c03e5140 EDX 00000006 ECX 00000000 EAX c034f3e0
        err 00000000 EIP c038938e  CS 00000060 flg 00010082
Stack:  00000000 00100000 00003c00 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 c03800c8 c039a9ec
        c037d0b8 00000083 00000000 c0304c47 00000000 00000071 c039a9ec c03b934c
        c0373fe8 00000071 c039a9ec c03b934c c0373fe8 c037d4ef c0304a7e 000001df