On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:55 PM, bnewbold wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Aug 2012, Nick M. Daly wrote: > >> Freedom Maker: https://github.com/nickdaly/freedom-maker >> >> - The weekly image has wireless again! > > > Does wireless work "out of the box" for anybody?
Are you building your own image or using the published ones? In either case, only images built from the "shiny" branch will have wireless enabled, and then only when you plug an ethernet cord into the eth1 slot during the first boot. The /etc/init.d/first-boot file controls this process and it removes itself after configuring the system on the first boot. > I've poked around online and the only people who seem to have been able to > successfully run the SD8688 chip in access point mode (without re-compiling > kernel modules) used the Marvell firmware in combination with specific > kernels and modules supplied by GlobalScale (dreamplug.google.com) or > spinfex.com.au. What changed to allow inter-operation between the Marvell > .bin firmware, the libertas drivers, and the generic 3.2-ish debian kernels? Reading this, it seems like either I built the images from the master branch (entirely possible, that branch doesn't have wireless), or you didn't have an ethernet cord plugged into the eth1 slot during the first boot. If you did, you would've downloaded spinfex's drivers automatically. I'll make sure to call this out in the notes for this week's image. Also, to explain, the Shiny branch contains experimental stuff that Bdale would never allow in his master branch, like a custom out-of-tree wireless driver downloaded from a third party site. It's new, shiny, and neat, but not the official image. Nick _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
