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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 10:18:49
Message-Id: 4699F3F1.30405@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 > You can dig bugzilla and find two entries too :
25 >
26 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176148
27 > => an ebuild from the git repository by Jakub Moc (you can trust
28 > him ;-))
29 >
30
31 Actually this one seems outdated too because it depends on some ebuilds
32 building modules that have been merged into 2.6.22.
33
34 Jakub please correct me if I'm wrong.
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