=== baseline-8.2.ndz === This image has everything baseline [wiki:Documentation/SupportedImages/baseline-2007-11-13.ndz baseline-7.11.ndz] but we upgaded: * [http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/download 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 ==== * 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. * baseline.ndz Until the size issues are resolved baseline.ndz will not point to this image. * 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 }}} ==== MD5sum ==== 0adbc62da22049f9c04e0a9657c7bef1 baseline-8.2.ndz Some additional notes: * [wiki:Documentation/BuildingDrivers BuildingDrivers]