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,