Hi Bastiaan, [To readers of debian-devel: please CC me and possibly [EMAIL PROTECTED] in replies so that we can follow discussions. I am currently not subscribed to debian-devel.]
Bastiaan Niels Veelo wrote: > I have hopes that my Gibraltar box can act as a wireless LAN Access > Point. I bought a cheap PCI card (D-Link DWL-500) which is based on the > Prism2 chipset. Jouni Malinen has written a driver that supports a so > called Host AP mode of these chipsets, turning the host computer into an > access point, without the need for special firmware. Would you please > consider inclusion of his driver for the next release of Gibraltar? > > You can find everything you need here: > http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/ > > I have compiled the driver on my laptop and it seems to work fine (did > not actually test networking though, that would require swapping PC > intestins). If I understand the web page correctly, it is mainly a user-space software and a stand-alone kernel module that can be compiled when the kernel source is available, but does not need a patched kernel tree. Therefore it would be very easy if there was a Debian package for the user-space software and a package containing the module source code (ready for being automatically compiled with make-kpkg). I am CCing this to the debian-devel mailing list in the hope that somebody is interested in creating a package of this software (if there is one already and I have missed it, then please flame away... :-) ). If nobody wants to maintain such a package, then I will create on for my use, which will probably not find its way into Debian unstable because of lack of time on my side. But I would be more than willing to assist in the initial packaging when somebody would maintain it afterwards. best regards, Rene
