[leaf-wisp] Modifying Distribution and Customization Help

"Herbert Rubens" <[email protected]> Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:38:47 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.leaf.wisp-dist
Message-ID <001101c48ea7$70ec3f30$99dcdc80@herblaptop>
Hi, I'm a new Wisp-Dist user, but so far I've been extremely impressed.
I've installed the distribution on a few embedded devices and had them
up and running in no time. The developers have done an excellent job. In
addition, I have been able to follow the instructions on installing TLA
and building the image myself. This was also straight forward and worked
well. I'd now like to be able to modify the distribution by removing
specific packages, upgrading certain components to newer versions, and
also building in some of my own kernel modules so that they are included
in my custom distribution. I was wondering if there is any documentation
that is available that might help me in doing this.


More specifically:

1) I'd like to upgrade the kernel to either a newer version of 2.4 or
better yet to the current stable 2.6 kernel. This would enable me to
build the Prism54 drivers into the kernel in order to support 802.11G
cards with the distribution.  

2) I'd also like to upgrade the host AP drivers that come with the
distribution. The current host AP drivers I believe are not the most
recent stable releases. I'm sure the current ones work fine, but some of
the specific things I need to do require functionality that is only in
the newer version of the driver.

3) I'd also like to stick one of my own kernel modules in the
distribution and add a /etc/init.d script to load and configure my
module when the system boots.

If anyone has a link to any documentation that would help me to be able
to accomplish this, it would be greatly appreciated. In addition, if
anyone has any tips on how to go about doing these things, they would
also be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

-Herb




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