Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@××××.fr>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 and the rt2500/rt2x00 wireless drivers
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:59:15
Message-Id: 4699EF1E.1000203@free.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 and the rt2500/rt2x00 wireless drivers by Rodolphe Rocca
1 Rodolphe Rocca wrote:
2 > Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
3 >> Kernels before 2.6.22 could be configured with "CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y"
4 >> which would allow the rt2500 legacy driver for the Ralink wireless
5 >> chipset to compile. I've had this combination working now for over a year.
6 >>
7 >> Starting with kernel 2.6.22, NET_RADIO is apparently no longer a
8 >> configuration parameter, so I can't compile the rt2500 legacy driver,
9 >> nor can I compile the newer rt2x00 driver which also depends on NET_RADIO.
10 >>
11 >> Has anyone gotten a rt2500/rtx00 driver to compile with 2.6.22? What
12 >> patches are needed? Is there a HOWTO somewhere? (The Gentoo Wiki
13 >> articles "rt2500 on AMD64" and "rt2x00" don't seem to address my
14 >> issue. In any case, neither the latest CVS of rt2500 (2007051606) nor
15 >> the latest ebuild (net-wireless/rt2500-1.1.0_pre2007020911) compile
16 >> with KERNDIR=/usr/src/linux-.6.22-gentoo-r1. The latest ebuild
17 >> compiled just fine with kernels before 2.6.22.)
18 >>
19 >> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
20 >>
21 >> --- Vladimir
22 >>
23 >
24 >
25 > Hi,
26 >
27 > the rt2x00 ebuild in portage is out-dated.
28 >
29 > The rt2x00 project has migrated to git for quite a while. They now
30 > provide nightly tarballs for the part related to the rt2x00 modules
31 > (without which you have to import the entire git tree to build the drivers).
32 >
33 > I've made an ebuild using this nightly tarball. You can find it attached.
34 >
35 > I've been using it for over a week and it works.
36 >
37 > I guess gentoo wireless guys are updating the official ebuild the same way.
38 >
39
40 With the ebuild attached it's better ;-)

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