Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ra2500 drivers for ASUS WL-167g

[Will Briggs]

Daniele Salatti wrote:
> Will Briggs wrote:
>> Oh and lastly - have you been to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500?
>>
>> W.
>
> No, I haven't been...I have been there right now, and I found that the
> right driver is the rt2570 for my USB dongle. The problem is that it's
> masked by missing keyword. I unmasked it, but emerge rt2570 failed. Here
> is the output:
>
> base sale # emerge rt2570
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1 to /
>>>> checking ebuild checksums ;-)
>>>> checking auxfile checksums ;-)
>>>> checking miscfile checksums ;-)
>>>> checking rt2570-1.1.0-b1.tar.gz ;-)
>>>> checking rt2570-cvs-update.patch.gz ;-)
>  * Determining the location of the kernel source code
>  * Found kernel source directory:
>  *     /usr/src/linux
>  * Found sources for kernel version:
>  *     2.6.17-gentoo-r4
>  * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...
>   [ ok ]>>> Unpacking source...
>>>> Unpacking rt2570-1.1.0-b1.tar.gz to
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work>>> Unpacking
> rt2570-cvs-update.patch.gz to /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work
>>>> Source unpacked.
>>>> Compiling source in
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1 ...
>  * Applying rt2570-cvs-update.patch ...
>   [ ok ] * Preparing rt2570 module
> make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4'
>   CC [M]
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.o
>   CC [M]
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/mlme.o/var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.c:40:
> error: syntax error before string constant
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.c:40:
> warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `MODULE_PARM'
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.c:40:
> warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.c:40:
> warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> distcc[13012] ERROR: compile
> /var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.c
> on localhost failed
> make[1]: ***
> [/var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module/rtusb_main.o]
> Error 1
> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> make: ***
> [_module_/var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module]
> Error 2
> make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4'
>
> !!! ERROR: net-wireless/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1 failed.
> Call stack:
>   ebuild.sh, line 1539:   Called dyn_compile
>   ebuild.sh, line 939:   Called src_compile
>   rt2570-1.1.0_beta1.ebuild, line 38:   Called linux-mod_src_compile
>   linux-mod.eclass, line 469:   Called die
>
> !!! Unable to make  -C /usr/src/linux
> M=/var/tmp/portage/rt2570-1.1.0_beta1/work/rt2570-1.1.0-b1/Module modules.
> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
> stack if relevant.
>
>
> I can't understand where is the problem. Can you help me?
>

Someone greater than I might be able to help you pull apart the source
code.  All I can say is that this is probably not keyworded ~amd64 for a
reason.  Mind you the rt2x00 sight
(http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/History) does seem to
indicate that amd64 is supported upstream. And googling seemed to
indicate that other distros (ubuntu) supprt rt2570 under amd64.

If you want to do it the hard way, and delve into the source code I
would suggest following the procedure at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rt2500_on_AMD64 (and replacing
references to 2500 with reference to 2570 of course).  I do something
similar getting the open source r300 drivers working for my video card.
  However this means mucking around with your system outside of the
bounds of portage, so you might break things.

That's about as far as I can go with you I think.


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