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Posted: June 12 2008,11:56 QUOTE

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If you had WPA working in another distro, it's easy to copy your conf over to DSL, Again, though, the issue of getting it to work is a function the combination of tools available in DSL: kernel, driver, wireless extension, etc. I don't remember if there are any issues with wpa_supplicant like there are with other pieces of the puzzle.

As far as DSL's future plans, please search the forums for "tiny core." From what Robert has written, it will not be called "DSL 5." It will be 2.6-based, but very barebones.

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If you had WPA working in another distro, it's easy to copy your conf over to DSL,
Yep, got that covered.  Using the same wpa_supplicant.conf file from both Ubuntu and Puppy.  Also just booted up DSL-n and found they don't have wpa_supplicant.  No extensions either.  Did some searching and found madwifi modules definitely work with kernel 2.4.x.  I'm going to chalk it up as a loss.  Did some reading on the Madwifi site and they're coming out with a version of the kernel modules that is completely open (no proprietary ath_hal module).  Read more about it here.  Hopefully that will find its way into DSL 5.
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Posted: June 12 2008,12:12 QUOTE

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Hopefully that will find its way into DSL 5.

It will likely be available as an extension, I doubt it will make its way into the base. And the 2.6 tiny core will probably not be called DSL 5 because it's a completely different species.


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