Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:55347 "EHLO mail-bw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752752Ab0LAVVA (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:21:00 -0500 Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so6552464bwz.19 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:20:59 -0800 (PST) From: Holger Schurig To: "Heyendal, Carl" Subject: Re: wireless in linux Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 22:20:52 +0100 Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" References: <1D6034426110564DA0DEA9EE9793B38357E35E4823@NBE-MBX01.americas.swk.pri> In-Reply-To: <1D6034426110564DA0DEA9EE9793B38357E35E4823@NBE-MBX01.americas.swk.pri> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <201012012220.53025.holgerschurig@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > I'm staring right now at the latest wpa_supplicant readme with all the > choices that I need to make. I'll be lucky if it works. It's really been > a piece-meal effort so far. This has nothing to do with being a newby. Newbies use distributions. Go and install Fedora, SuSE, Ubuntu, whatever. They compiled wpa_supplicant for you. Okay, I see that you work in the embedded space. Maybe I can point to to bitbake and www.openembedded.org? Here there's a recipe that cross-compiles wpa_supplicant for you. While OpenEmbedded itself isn't something for newbies, using it takes away some of the decision-making ("Which config option do I need?" from you. But I wouldn't call any embedded work a work for a newbie ... > Are there any reference books, tutorials, howto's, wireless enabled > kernels...anything that someone can point me to that would help? http://wireless.kernel.org For wpa_supplicant questions, even when it comes to compiling, try the hostap mailing list. This list covers both hostap and wpa_supplicant. BTW, I agree that queries like "Linux wireless introduction" or "Linux wireless HOWTO" will reveal lot's of outdated stuff. -- http://www.holgerschurig.de