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On Friday, 22. December. 2006 16:24, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 00:42 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: |
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> > net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers |
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> > built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in |
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> > portage is the same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball |
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> > (2.6.x). |
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> Just curious, but what about 2.4 kernel users? As I understand it, the |
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> 2.4 gentoo-sources seems to be the only currently supported 2.4 kernel |
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> for x86, so do these drivers even work there? If not, it makes the |
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> point moot, but if this is the only way for 2.4-based Gentoo users to |
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> use their hardware, it might be a bad idea to remove them just yet. |
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Nope, the external packages currently present in portage don't support |
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linux-2.4. |
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