Hello Javier, I think that's a fantastic approach, and I have successfully built distro11s, but I was hoping for something a little less exotic using equipment I had on hand to start with. My journey over this last week has been very educational but I was left with lots of holes in my understanding, hence my question. I have some USB devices on order and will likely switch over to the VM approach before long. (Although I may take a detour into simulation for a bit.) Thanks, Thomas for your pointer to the compat-drivers pages. I had been to the old one, but there looks to be some info here that I had missed. So much to learn, so little time! Paul -----Original Message----- From: Javier Cardona [mailto:javier@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2012 10:27 AM To: paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Thomas Pedersen Subject: Re: Noob question: Development Environment Hi Paul, On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Thomas Pedersen <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Paul Stoaks <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> (...) >> What I would like to have is a stable development and test >> environment where I can work for a period of months without having to >> upgrade the kernel version on my development and test machines, but >> staying close to the bleeding edge with the core wireless modules and drivers. Maybe running the latest kernel inside a virtual machine can be a good solution; it all depends on the type of development you intend to do. For instance we attach usb wireless cards to our virtualized guests to test them with the latest kernels. Here is a distro that we maintain just for this type of virtualized development: https://github.com/cozybit/distro11s Cheers, Javier -- Javier Cardona cozybit Inc. http://www.cozybit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
