[RFC] madwifi staging and hostap-deamon support for madwifi

[RFC] madwifi staging and hostap-deamon support for madwifi

[Rod Whitby]

I want to get hostap-deamon working for madwifi (on the IOMega NAS100d,
and D-Link DSMG-600 RevA).

Currently, it does not support madwifi, and the current madwifi-ng
recipe is putting the include files in a place other than the place that
hostapd looks for them during the compile.  Also, hostapd has an
RDEPENDS on hostapd-modules, which does not make sense for madwifi.

I'd like to change madwifi-ng to put the files in the right place, and
then change hostap-daemon to enable madwifi support and use those
include files.  Are there any other known packages that use madwifi
include files that may be affected?

I can either enable this globally, or enable it for the slugos distro
only, or enable it for ixp4xx machines only.  Which should I do?

Here is the madwifi-ng.inc patch:

>  do_stage() {
> -       install -d ${STAGING_INCDIR}/${PN}/include
> -       install -d ${STAGING_INCDIR}/${PN}/net80211
> -       cp --dereference include/compat.h ${STAGING_INCDIR}/${PN}/include/
> -       cp --dereference net80211/*.h ${STAGING_INCDIR}/${PN}/net80211/
> +       install -d ${STAGING_INCDIR}/net80211
> +       cp --dereference include/compat.h ${STAGING_INCDIR}/net80211/
> +       cp --dereference net80211/*.h ${STAGING_INCDIR}/net80211/
>  }

Here is the hostap-daemon.inc patch (example using a _ixp4xx override):

> -RDEPENDS = "hostap-modules hostap-utils (${PV})"
> +RDEPENDS = "hostap-utils (${PV})"
> +DEPENDS_append_ixp4xx = " madwifi-ng"
> 
> +do_configure_ixp4xx() {
> +        sed -e 's/\#CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y/CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y/' \
> +               '${WORKDIR}/defconfig' >>'${S}/.config'
> +}

If there are no responses, I will continue with the madwifi-ng change as
above, and do the override for all _ixp4xx machines.

-- Rod

Re: [RFC] madwifi staging and hostap-deamon support for madwifi

[Marcin Juszkiewicz]

Dnia poniedziałek, 12 marca 2007, Rod Whitby napisał:
> I want to get hostap-deamon working for madwifi (on the IOMega NAS100d,
> and D-Link DSMG-600 RevA).

And also on any other PCI equipped machines (madwifi req pci iirc).

> Currently, it does not support madwifi, and the current madwifi-ng
> recipe is putting the include files in a place other than the place
> that hostapd looks for them during the compile.  

> Also, hostapd has an RDEPENDS on hostapd-modules, which does not make
> sense for madwifi. 

Hostap-modules dependency should be dropped - we use hostap from kernel. 

I would like to get latest stable hostapd in OE.

> I'd like to change madwifi-ng to put the files in the right place, and
> then change hostap-daemon to enable madwifi support and use those
> include files.  Are there any other known packages that use madwifi
> include files that may be affected?

wpa-supplicant use madwifi and also has all needed code for madwifi 
support on PCI equipped machines.

> I can either enable this globally, or enable it for the slugos distro
> only, or enable it for ixp4xx machines only.  Which should I do?

Enable it for PCI equipped machines like it is in wpa-supplicant 0.5.x

> Here is the hostap-daemon.inc patch (example using a _ixp4xx override):
> > -RDEPENDS = "hostap-modules hostap-utils (${PV})"
> > +RDEPENDS = "hostap-utils (${PV})"
> > +DEPENDS_append_ixp4xx = " madwifi-ng"
> >
> > +do_configure_ixp4xx() {
> > +        sed -e
> > 's/\#CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y/CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y/' \ +           
> >    '${WORKDIR}/defconfig' >>'${S}/.config'
> > +}

Do this like it is done in wpa-supplicant 0.5.x

Thx

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