On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:48:01AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Hmm - I have made an unofficial .deb of mol available here: > http://debian.jones.dk/debian/local/auryn/pool/jones/mol/ > or > deb http://debian.jones.dk/debian/local sid misc > > It is compiled against 2.4.2-something headers, I think it only has to do > with the sheep-net ethernet driver, non-networking parts of mol should run > fine also on other systems).
someone made an ITP for mol several monthes ago, but i don't think anything ever came of it.. i was going to look at this again to see what i could come up with. one really tricky problem is it seems you often MUST recompile the mol modules against the exact kernel source of the running kernel. otherwise they don't work. on my system when i upgraded to 2.2.19 and force load the 2.2.18 mol modules mol bitches that the kernel patches don't match mol or somesuch rubbish. i think this happened from 2.2.17 -> 2.2.18 as well. my idea is to take the module sources from mol and put them in thier own package, say mol-modules-src or something. this package should depend on kernel-headers and would allow the user to build just the modules against thier running kernel. i am not sure if this would work though, if i get bored agian i may mess with it. one other thing i have found, it seems that non-root users cannot run mol for the first time, even with a setuid patcher, since AFAICT its the wrapper shell script that loads the modules, this of course fails if your not root. an ugly solution to this is add a initscript to run the patcher and then install the mol modules... but then again allowing non-root users to run mol may be a huge security hole anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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