11s on openwrt

[Javier Cardona]

Ciao Leonardo,

> This doen't work as expected. Actually it doesn't work at all :-)
> at least for avila (ixp4XX processor) it doesn't compile, you have to
> patch it to do it. Even after the patch, I see that stable kamikaze
> (8.09.1) is equipped with kernel 2.6.26 and compat-wireless-2008-08-06.
> This should include at least release 0.2.1 of 11s right?
> I was unable to make it work yet.

We found that the easiest way to bring o11s to openwrt was to generate
a compat-wireless package from a newer kernel.  We used 2.6.30 that
was the newest kernel supported by openwrt at the time.
We have not tested the configuration you describe, but I would expect
it to work.

> what I can't understand is that in open11s main page it says that ath5k
> works from version 2.6.29 of the kernel. Does that mean that
> compat-wireless is anyway unusable with versions lower than that?

No

> Or,
> whatever kernel I use (>2.6.22), if I get any compat-wireless[-old] I
> can make ath5k and 11s work?

Yes

Javier

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