[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

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
adamklobukowski@gmail.com