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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Slackware 8.1 has a wireless tools packages of 54k containing iwconfig and 
iwlist, which together can be used to set essid, mode (Managed or Ad-Hoc), 
channel (auto for the strongest signal, or choose a channel), key (WEP or 
WAP at the library), ap (access point - any for the strongest, or specify 
with a long number, which Windows should be able to detect if I cannot 
figure it out in linux, or ask the library).  Or you can

echo "0 :\x:x:x:x:" > /proc/driver/aironet/eth1/WepKey
(change for orinoco and etho0)

iwlist tells you what is in /proc/net/wireless

Slackware 7.1 may be too old to support wireless well, even with the older 
16-bit cards.  I already added SW8.1 glibc 2.2.5 to BL3 for Opera.

Busybox 1.3.0 came out Dec. 14 2006 (today) and contains bugfixes for dd, 
login, ifconfig, insmod, mount, umount (on my 600MHz Intel computer mount 
often shows four /fd's, or one when I unmounted it, same for hd, tho DOS 
7.1 works fine), and improved tar and grep and cp and find.  Claims to be 
stable.  There is also a 1.2.2 stable and a 1.2.2.1 bugfixed.

uclibc has not reached 1.0 yet - 0.9.28 17 Aug 2005 and the latest 2.2 
kernel is still 2.2.26 (2004), with a 2.2.27 prepatch (Jan 12 2005).

Kernel 2.2 may never support usb storage.  "There are many changes to the 
SCSI subsystem in 2.4 which means the back-port is unlikely to be fully 
functional.  Therefore the usb-storage parts of the back-port are not 
supported.

Apparently nobody cares enough to make 2.2 work with USB-storage.  I just 
got Win98 to work with it (the free generic nusb23e.exe) and standalone 
DOS 7.1 works with one usbaspi and one other .sys file in config.sys.
Would the DOS drivers work under dosemu?


Steven, do you want to compile busybox 1.2.2 or even 1.3.0 uclibc for BL 
with iwconfig?

Do you plan a new version of BL3 before uclibc 1.0 arrives (if ever)?
If not, you could still offer a replacement busybox.

The busybox I compiled while running 2.4.31 appears to work with 2.2.26.
It includes modprobe.  I will add iwconfig.

Sindi