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
- 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:
