Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Just a question

[Miguel Sousa Filipe]

Hi all, hi Kevin,

Kevin Geiss wrote:
> one example: I spent a weekend at a friend's house. he had a wireless access
> point which worked fine with my ibook in gentoo linux. I rebooted to show him
> what OS X was like, and the access point refused to provide OS X an ip
> address (dhcp). seems the dhcp server had a bug in the protocol. the linux
> network stack proved more robust.
>
> I can find no good free gps interface software in OS X, but there are several
> for linux.
>
> also, kismet & airsnort is much nicer than macstumbler :)
>
> I know you can get the source to most of the OS X kernel, but can you actually
> roll your own kernel and still watch quicktime movies and such? Are there
> closed-source parts of OS X's kernel? I'm curious because I have some of my
> own custom linux kernel hacks which I'd like to try to port to the OS X
> kernel, but I haven't looked into it yet.

Well, the darwin kernel is all open source, but in fact I think you can't be 
shure that if you roll out your own patched darwin kernel in osX if it will work.
That's because the os X that sits on top of the kernel is closed source, so, we 
never know it its using some weird system calls in some special, or if they are 
circunventing some kernel bug or deficiency that if you fix it in a way they're 
not expecting the thing won't work properly...

About you custom kernel hacks, are you able to do monitor mode with the airport 
card, I can't.
I've read some pages about patching the kernel with some recent airport drivers, 
  and I did that, but to no avail, I'm now using ben's kernel 2.4.21-r2 wich has 
the airport 0.13d driver, and monitor mode is not available too.
In case you can, can you give some hints about that?

Thanks.

Miguel Sousa Filipe



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