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I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I |
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couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept re-emerging |
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the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module. |
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daevid ~ # emerge -av net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng |
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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[ebuild N ] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23 -build -pcmcia -usb |
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437 kB |
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Total size of downloads: 437 kB |
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Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment |
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that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the |
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wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my |
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/etc/portage/package.use file and add 'pcmcia' to it for this ebuild. I |
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guess I never noticed or even considered the possibility that it would |
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default to not building PCMCIA. |
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I would like to request that pcmcia be on by default for this ebuild. |
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This would also go for "net-wireless/hostap-driver". |
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"net-wireless/madwifi-driver" doesn't have this problem. It just works. |
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Is there some logic or reason behind them being defaulted to off for these |
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that I'm just not seeing? |
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I've added it as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100835 |
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