[ALUG] Updating Redhat 9 system

[Brett Parker]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:40:31PM +0100, Ian bell wrote:
> Brett Parker wrote:
> >
> >Ah ha! *Finally* - the one piece of hardware that I know actually does
> >have better hardware support in *BSD than in linux (that's the card they
> >use in the newer soekris boxes too, hence I've actually got one working
> >in OpenBSD...).
> 
> Ah, so you fell for the marketing hype then?

Nope - happens that the boss likes OpenBSD for firewalls - and that box
*only* runs pf (Packet Filter) and ssh (weirdly, locked down to trusted
hosts via pf...). It's got a smaller footprint for a firewall, and for
our actual office where there is potentially sensitive information, that
is on the *outside* layer, just inside of that, after the DMZ, is the
internal firewall, which is another soekris running debian sarge with a
2.6 kernel and iptables.

> >Weirdly however, there is support and documentation on
> >making them work in linux available from their *official* website...
> >weirder still, the driver is GPL'd... So I expect it to make it in to a
> >linux kernel some time RSN.
> >
> 
> Don't understand why it has taken so long.

As far as I can tell, they've been there for "some time".

> >Better yet - there's the http://rt2400.sourceforge.net/ link on their
> >website (http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm) which is a step in the
> >right direction... and debian has a bunch of source packages that can be
> >compiled against the kernel headers - so, err... yeah - maybe some
> >people just need better sysadmins?
> >
> 
> Yeah, been there, done that but it's broken.

hmm - weird... all I did (to test the build) was...

apt-get install rt2500-source
m-a build rt2500

and magically, I have a debian package built for my current kernel with
the modules in it. Easy peasy simple tastic stuff.

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker