Will hostap work on 386sx??

[AST 386sx]

It is a debian.  I used to have 2.2.x with external PCMCIA package.  Same
problem with 0.0.3 hostap.   I have moved up to 2.4 because it has better
pcmcia and other support.


KK

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gARetH baBB" <hick.l.hostap at gink.org>
To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
Sent: April 19, 2004 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: Will hostap work on 386sx??


> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, AST 386sx wrote:
>
> > I keep trying to load the hostap into my linux router.  It is a 386 with
16M
> > ram and runing 2.4.26.  I keep geting the following error.  Same problem
on
> > both 0.0.3 and 0.2.0.  I have no problem with the same setup but with
486
> > system.
>
> You haven't told us which distribution you're using, but several now -
> including eg. Slackware 9.x - will *not* run on a 386, compiling for 486
> and above only is the usual.
>
> I'm presuming you're using a recentish distribution as some of the utils
> 2.4.x requires need a relatively recent set.
>
> I'd suggest for such a machine you stick to 2.2.x using hostap 0.0.x -
> you can't chug much through a 386 like that, so keep it nice and simple.
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