Re: [MiNT] Network tools

[p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk]

>---- Original Message ----
>From: Adam Klobukowski <adamklobukowski@gmail.com>
>To: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk
>Cc: mint@lists.fishpool.fi
>Sent: Mon, Jan 16, 2012, 1:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [MiNT] Network tools
>
>2012/1/16  <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
>> While looking for something about Samba I found something on c.s.a.st
>> from years ago about wireless networking.
>>
>> The old MintNet tools from Sparemint probably don't support wireless but
>> I wondered if the Gentoo stuff does ?
>>
>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/wireless/2003-October/002653.html
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
>>
>> The sparemint rpm is from 2001 and includes the xif drivers that are now
>> in Xaaes, is this right ?  They are now very old.
>>
>> http://www.atariforge.net/sparemint/html/packages/freemint-net.html
>>
>> I was trying to build a newer samba but it might be useful to have a go
>> at the mintnet tools too, using the same version as the Gentoo ones.
>
>TCP/IP level tools (in most cases) do not need to know what kind onf
>network they run on (ethernet/wifi/pigeon). This is only important for
>kernel and lower level tools.
>
>-- 
>Semper Fidelis
>
>Adam Klobukowski

But you can't configure wireless with our current ifconfig and, from those links above,
it looks like the bsd ones can. Ok we don't have any wireless drivers (yet) but
it removes an obstacle if we can configure wireless.

Since our tools are 10 years old it is probably worth re-doing them in any case.

Peter