[chilli] Re: [chilli] Re: Sense of self awareness? :)

[wlan at mac.com]

If you are more able to patch chillispot in dd-wrt, then just  
consider coova-chilli a really big chillispot patch (which it is). I  
personally haven't compiled it on xscale, but I don't know what you  
mean by it not being arm/xscale ready. I assume you mean that there  
is a byte order issue somewhere -- which there was, actually, in the  
original chillispot, fixed by OpenWrt for the FONera. This patch is  
not in CoovaChilli only because I did the same fix differently. If  
there are other endian issues that I am unaware of, well, it would be  
nice if someone made them known instead of spreading mis-information.

Perhaps you will find better hotspot centric community support here  
-- using CoovaChilli/AP :)

On May 16, 2008, at 6:29 AM, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:

>>
>>> 	Kewl, exactly what I need. Maybe I can see what it took to  
>>> accomplish
>>> this can get it patched into the old server for use. Or, I'll find
>>> its just
>>> way too much and have to find other means of accomplishing my
>>> goals. But now
>>> I have direction.
>>
>> I don't think taking patches back to chillispot is that great of an
>> idea. CoovaChilli has _many_ fixes and new features that make it
>> worth the switch. I wonder that the point is in keeping chillispot
>> limping along with band-aids.
>>
> 	I agree its not a great idea. Its worse than chicken wire and
> bubble gum in my opinion. But bringing Coova over to DD-WRT isn't  
> happening
> because as the author has stated "right now coova is not big endian  
> and
> arm/xscale safe". I'm limited in what I can do with presenting  
> something
> to the person running the network. If it can't be supported by the  
> DD-WRT
> community through a general distribution release, then its  
> unacceptable.
> That means, instead of allowing me to add a small script that would  
> backup
> the config of the appliance, as well as restore it during a "I've  
> been reset
> to default" reboot, he rolls a truck when a unit loses all the  
> configuration.
> Is there someone who rolled a version with this in it? Yes. Is it  
> default in
> the DD-WRT images? No. So, it doesn't happen. I have my hands tied.  
> This is
> the same people rather suffer a 6 hour outage due to equipment  
> failure, than
> get emails saying the equipment is down the seconds it happens  
> since "Too many
> emails makes Vista work poorly".
>
> 	So until the big endian and arm/xscale issue is resolved in BS's  
> view,
> and Coova makes it into DD-WRT, I'm stuck with what can be done in  
> the mean time.
> And that, unfortunately, may mean some ugly patching potentially.  
> Or, just
> letting yet another thing be "ignored".
>
> 			Tuc
>
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