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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:34, Joseph Carter wrote: |
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> 2. pcmcia-cs seems to lock solid every single kernel I threw at the |
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> thing, regardless of whether or not it was actually doing anything |
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> with PCMCIA at the time. |
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> Solution: Gentoo 1.4 uses pcmcia-cs 3.2.1, which is not the current |
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> version. 3.2.3 is available but masked I guess until 1.4 is ready for |
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> release. Lots of people report similar lockups with the drivers in |
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> 1.4, and while I can't say it will fix everyone's problems, I know |
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> that it has fixed mine. |
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actually, 3.2.3 has been in cvs for months now: |
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http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/pcmcia-cs/ |
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it was added back in november |
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> 5. Replacement for the above was a Belkin F5D6130 (wth kind of model |
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> number is that?!) which has no only SNMP configuration. The ap-utils |
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> page says it's supported, so I emerge ap-utils on my desktop machine |
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> and run it. This didn't work, and basically hosed the AP so that |
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> nothing could even see it anymore. Hardware reset and settings wipe |
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> made the Windows drivers able to see it. |
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> Solution: ap-utils 1.0.5 is what's in Gentoo. This version is ancient |
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> and not useful with most newer APs. 1.3.1 is currently stable, so I |
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> had to make an ebuild for it. Gentoo bug 15912 contains the ebuild. |
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> Note, the Windows crap for this thing have two options for security: |
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> none and single passwd for everything. ap-config can do better, but |
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> after changing security settings the Belkin-provided software no |
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> longer recognise it as a Belkin AP. How terrible! ;) |
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ap-utils-1.3.1 was added earlier today to cvs ... |
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http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-wireless/ap-utils/ |
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-mike |
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