Re: [MiNT] Network tools

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:32:07 , "Jo Even Skarstein" <joska@online.no> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:16:03 +0100, <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >> It makes no sense to extend ifconfig until there is a driver
> >> that supports wifi, because there is no way to actually verify that it
> >> works...
> >
> > It is chicken & egg, without the tools it would be harder to test the
> > driver.
>
> The natural thing to do is to extend ifconfig together with the driver.
>
> >> They are rebuilt nightly: http://freemint.org
> >
> > Sparemint rpm's are not re-built though and that it what I was referring
> > too.
> > This is where ifconfig and the net tools are.
>
> No. The net-tools are in the FreeMiNT CVS, not SpareMiNT.
>

Have a look here:

http://sparemint.org/sparemint/html/packages/freemint-net.html
 
> > It looks like we had a similar conversation in 2005 (is it that long ago
> > ?)
> >
> > http://mobile.google.com/group/comp.sys.atari.st/tree/browse_frm/month/2005-10/7a15d6eced389464?rnum=71&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.sys.atari.st%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F2005-10%3F
>
> The situation is the same today. Still no driver for wifi-cards for
> FreeMiNT.
>

and still no tools to support as you said way back. Something has to
give somewhere.

Adam pointed out that the kernel would need changes too for 802.11

Regards,

Peter