Zipslack with HostAP - old 486 laptop
As a new convert to Linux, i have download and installed the latest slackware ZIPSLACK onto my toshiba 486 laptop (2Gb hdd, 24Mb ram).
I tried installing RH and mandrake, but it would not fit.
Anyway, the aim of my project it to get Hostap going.
I am having heaps of problems compiling the hostap app, mainly from the barebone system having the lack of packages that i needed. (i think i have installed all that i needed now - eg gcc, as, butils,
I have read everything i can find on hostAP and wlan - and was hoping someone could answer a few questions.
1) is it normal that 'make' will not work on a low spec machine. (out of memory errors) or does it just mean that i am still missing some packages?
2) i have tried installing the RH packages of hostAP using RPM on slackware - i get a segmentation error. missing componate again? or just cannot shoehorn this rpm into slack?
3) has somebody made a kernel already for slack, and has it for download? Like the RH one's, or is it not that easy with slack?
Hope someone might be able to point me in the right direction or offer advice - it will be welcomed!
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