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From: "Vladimir G. Ivanovic" <vgivanovic@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Cc: fake2@××××.fr
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 and the rt2500/rt2x00 wireless drivers
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:55:22
Message-Id: 469CAD7E.8030005@comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 and the rt2500/rt2x00 wireless drivers by Rodolphe Rocca
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4 Thanks. I'll give your ebuild a try first, and then (if needed) the
5 last one you suggest below.
6
7 Thanks.
8
9 - --- Vladimir
10
11 Rodolphe Rocca wrote:
12 > Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
13 >> Kernels before 2.6.22 could be configured with "CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y"
14 >> which would allow the rt2500 legacy driver for the Ralink wireless
15 >> chipset to compile. I've had this combination working now for over a year.
16 >>
17 >> Starting with kernel 2.6.22, NET_RADIO is apparently no longer a
18 >> configuration parameter, so I can't compile the rt2500 legacy driver,
19 >> nor can I compile the newer rt2x00 driver which also depends on NET_RADIO.
20 >>
21 >> Has anyone gotten a rt2500/rtx00 driver to compile with 2.6.22? What
22 >> patches are needed? Is there a HOWTO somewhere? (The Gentoo Wiki
23 >> articles "rt2500 on AMD64" and "rt2x00" don't seem to address my
24 >> issue. In any case, neither the latest CVS of rt2500 (2007051606) nor
25 >> the latest ebuild (net-wireless/rt2500-1.1.0_pre2007020911) compile
26 >> with KERNDIR=/usr/src/linux-.6.22-gentoo-r1. The latest ebuild
27 >> compiled just fine with kernels before 2.6.22.)
28 >>
29 >> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
30 >>
31 >> --- Vladimir
32 >>
33 >
34 > You can dig bugzilla and find two entries too :
35 >
36 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176148
37 > => an ebuild from the git repository by Jakub Moc (you can trust
38 > him ;-))
39 >
40 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185229
41 > => an ebuild similar to mine
42 >
43 > Now you have three choices :-)
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 and the rt2500/rt2x00 wireless drivers Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@××××.fr>