Re: At what point did the Linux kernel start supporting wireless?
From: The Eighth Doctor (drwho8__NOTME___at_att.net)
Date: 07/09/05
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:01:39 GMT
In article <slrndcud4u.poa.ibuprofin@compton.phx.az.us>,
ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld says...
>
>In the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
><5Fgze.397972$cg1.164161@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
>The Eighth Doctor wrote:
>
>>I've got an older laptop here. He's happily running Slackware 8.0 which
>>happens to use the 2.2.19 kernel. The last time I built a custom kernel
>>for a machine running that release I noted that it had the wireless
>>networking device modules in its lists.
>
>I suppose you have your reasons for running a kernel that old. The "current"
>2.2.x kernel is 2.2.26 (released 2/25/2004), and 2.2.27-rc2 was released
>in January of this year.
>
>>That being said I am wondering as to when the kernel started supporting
>>wireless?
>
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 38891 Jul 31 2002 Wireless-HOWTO
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 38915 Jun 3 2004 Wireless-Link-sys-WPC11
>-rw-rw-r-- 1 gferg ldp 8611 Aug 9 2004 Wireless-Sync-HOWTO
>
>>The later or newer if you prefer releases, of Slackware contain some
>>special tools for Wireless, I plan on backporting them to the release
>>running on the laptop, I just need some sense of direction here.
>
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/
>
>Unfortunetly, there are few change logs as separate files for the 2.2.x
>kernels. The ChangeLog-2.4.* files are available in the 2.4 directory.
>For the 2.6.x kernel, only 2.6.1 did NOT mention wireless.
>
>[compton ~]$ grep -il wireless kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.* | column
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.13 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.21 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.26
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.18 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.22 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.28
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.19 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.23 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.30
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.20 kernel/ChangeLog-2.4.25
>[compton ~]$ grep -il wireless kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.* | column
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.0 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.2 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.6
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.10 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.3 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.7
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.11 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.4 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.8
>kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.12 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.5 kernel/ChangeLog-2.6.9
>[compton ~]$
>
> Old guy
Hello from the Eighth Doctor
Actually yes. The laptop is old enough to vote, and currently resources, namely
money, are short, as they are this time of year. I think there is support for a newer
release of the PCMCICA-CS routines however, so I might be able to squeeze that
in. I have not tried anything from Slackware 9.1 or 10.0, or 10.1 on it as it happens.
-- Gregg drwho8 atsign att dot net
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