Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:34:31 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:

> [ebuild  N    ] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23  -build -pcmcia
> -usb 437 kB
> Total size of downloads: 437 kB
>
> Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment
> that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the
> wireless cards out there are PCMCIA.

90% of the wireless cards out there don't need wlan-ng. For example, the
prism2 PCMCIA cards are supported in the kernel but the prism2 USB ones
are not.

I suppose the moral is, never trust the defaults, especially as they are
global, not per ebuild. If your computer has a PCMCIA slot, set the
pcmcia USE flag in make.conf.


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Neil Bothwick

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