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Unclear On The Concept

Journal by MichaelDavidCrawford

I realized last week that I could build one of Apple's driver stacks at home. I wanted this so I could turn on its logging as well as to enable source code debugging.

Each day I updated my clients on my progress, however by today I was quite dismayed that I still couldn't get it to build. This because Apple has a private SDK called macosx.internal. The drivers from Apple's Open Source site once built out of the box, thereby enabling OpenDarwin, but now they don't.

I at first had no clue what was in machos.internal - damn autocorrect! - but eventually figured out that it needed some headers from the xnu kernel.

I figured I should try building the kernel first, but again it depends on macosx.internal. All I really needed was the headers, so I tried:

      $ make installhdrs

... which did install lots of headers, but not the ones I needed. The only headers it installs are already in Kernel.framework. I needed some of the private headers. As I figured them out I added them to my own private Kernel.framework.

When I started work again today I mailed my clients with "Working at home to continue building the IOGraphicsFamily. I am dismayed that this is taking so long."

Dismayed because the client wants to send my driver to OEMs on the first.

Eric wrote back, "Do you think this will help?"

"Yes. It should enable debugging of that showstopper bug."

"The one Lucas fixed last week?"

 

Reply to: I tried out that WiFi hacking tool

    (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:13AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Wednesday November 29 2017, @07:13AM (#602853) Homepage

    I don't recall the name but I found it helpful that it displayed the signal strengths in Db.

    When I was staying with my mother she would not permit me to use my own money to get cable internet for her home. So I used her 2002 iMac G4 - the space probe module - as a gateway so I could get online with its dialup, which never worked worth a damn.

    So I had the bright idea that I could hack into the wifi of one of her condo association neighbors. I WILL NEVER BUY A HOUSE THAT"S UNDER THE THUMB OF A HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION M"KAY?

    But no, all her neighbors were secure enough that that hacking tool didn't work.

    In my current apartment I could have used a Pringles can to get online via the cop shop that's two doors down - they have free city of Vancouver public service wifi. But before I could get around to eating potato chips I'd already sprung for my cable modem.

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