[Angstrom-devel] [PATCH] Poodle WPA support

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Feb 19, 2008 11:01 AM, Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Marcin,
>
> On Sunday 17 February 2008, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
> > Dnia Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Helge Deller napisał:
> > > Basically it enables WPA wireless support with CF-WIFI-cards on Poodle
> > > by default. This is done by adding some missing config lines
> > > (MACHINE_FEATURES_append_poodle and MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS_poodle),
> > > which are similiar to the ones of other Zaurus devices.
> >
> > Pushed PCMCIA modules adding.
>
> Thanks a lot for pushing my patches!
>
> > "wifi" feature is limited to devices with  always available wifi --
>
> Ok.
>
> > for wifi-in-cfslot use task-base-extended  package (which Ångström
> does).
>
> This one I don't quite understand.
> Could you please explain this a little more ?
> I found RDEPENDS_task-base-extended in packages/tasks/task-base.bb.
> This one includes ${ADD_WIFI}.
> In the function "__anonymous ()", ${ADD_WIFI} is set to include
> "task-base-wifi" if this line is true:
> ...if "wifi" in distro_features and not "wifi" in machine_features and
> ("pcmcia" in machine_features or "pci" in machine_features or "usbhost" in
> machine_features)...
>
> It seems for Poodle, that "wifi" is in distro_features, "wifi" is not in
> machine_features and pcmcia is in machine_features.
> So the above check seems to be OK, but nevertheless the boot kernel on
> Poodle does not include wifi for me.
>
> Am I looking at the right place, or did you meant something else ?
> Do you maybe have another hint for me ?


i think this might be a bug in opie-images. IIRC, task-opie depends only on
task-base not task-base-extended. I'll check on that tonight on the way
home, unless you beat me to it.



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> Helge
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