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Christian Heim wrote: |
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> Heya, |
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> net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers built as |
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> an external package through portage. The codebase currently in portage is the |
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> same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball (2.6.x). |
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> For this reason I am suggesting, everyone migrates to the in-kernel drivers. |
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> They can be found here: |
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> Networking ---> |
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> Network device support ---> |
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> [*] Network device support |
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> Wireless LAN (non-hamradio) ---> |
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> [*] Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions |
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> <M> Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection |
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> <M> Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection |
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> These will also enable the in-kernel version of the ieee80211 driver. |
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> As per summary, both packages are going to get punted from the tree. Both will |
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> vanish around sometime next January (I'd say 30 days from today - which makes |
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> it 21th January 2007). |
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> And to leave those of you, who already use the in-kernel driver relaxed, the |
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> firmware images are not going to get removed as they are still needed for the |
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> in-kernel drivers. |
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I switched to the in kernel ones without a problem. It does report |
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itself as 1.1.4k in the gentoo-sources-2.6.19-r2 kernel though. |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ |
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