There's an updated MadWifi HAL (0.10.5.6) out now that supports those chipsets. Would be sweet if it'd make its way into R6...
Tickets for the AR5700EG: http://madwifi.org/ticket/1192

Great. I'm looking forward to this...
It sounds interesting. Let me have a try.

It'd be nice if an eq plugin for alsa was installed (maybe with a gui?)

Either way still a fan of KM and thankful of everyone's hard work!

and everything else needed/convenient.

I usually need to compile some stuff that needs the kernel sources. I wouldn't really mind burning a half-empty DVD. The extra space could be used to maybe include source for all other stuff too, or databases or whatever...

It seems to be missing in R5.5 and is needed for some remotes.

Seems like lirc_gpio (lirc-modules-source 0.8.2-2) is not compiling at all with newer kernels. That is probably why... I guess there's some patching necessary to make it compile. Even the newest version doesn't work...

Pardon if this seems like a foolish question:
Why not "apt-get 'em when you need 'em?"

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Basically you can apt-get anything... You're right.
It is very convenient though to have all the sources you'll need. When I install a new Knoppmyth one of the first things I do is downloading kernel sources... I have needed sources for one thing or another in every knoppmyth version I used...

1) The CD is already *very* full.
2) Cecil has stated categorically and repeatedly that he will _not_ be going to a DVD based distro. He's really quite firm on that point. It's his distro, and he is the BDFL, so he has final say on this.

I know, I know...
I don't want to sound pessimistic here, but sooner or later there might be no way 'round it...

Or he could make internet access an installation requirement (it is anyway for tvguide data) and just have the installer apt-get everything as soon as it can access the net. R6 is supposed to support network upgrades so the infrastructure will be there anyway.

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Sounds like a good idea to me... Like a myth-getstuff.sh script ;)

I'm going to see about doing it myself in the meantime, but out of box support would be totally awesome.

http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixlinux.en.html

Off topic, but closely related: I respect that, because I have most of my boxes built from old equipment, without DVD -players.

However, would it be possible to make two cd's? One which installs "core" KnoppMyth and the other with all the goodies and sources and such.

But I trust Cecil in this matter. Also in many others.

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Those few "other" things (mainly kernel sources) are generally available for download as debian packages which makes it even easier, you can just get and install them as needed. Packaging them on a CD would be redundant and make updates harder.

I'd like to see ffmpeg compiled with FAAD (mp4 audio decoder) support.

I enabled it in R5.5 by upgrading ffmpeg as detailed here (page 2):
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18507&start=15

Of course if you are going to compile a custom version of ffmpeg, then it's just --enable-libfaad

I use it for some transcoding jobs that I run (not really Myth related), but I imagine that it will also be necessary or at least useful for anyone who has a card that captures in H.264 natively--the plextor devices and Hauppauge HD-PVR come to mind.

Thanks.