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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 10:31:36AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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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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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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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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galen:/usr/portage/sys-apps/pcmcia-cs# grep KEYWORDS \ |
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pcmcia-cs-3.2.3.ebuild |
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KEYWORDS="~x86" |
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The point was that it should be unmasked for 1.4, given that it fixes |
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lockup conditions if it does not cause said lockups for other people who |
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do not currently have problems with 3.2.1. |
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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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Yes, 15912 was resolved this morning when the ebuild was added, with a |
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minor change for nls.. |
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Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@×××.org> Goldfish don't bounce |
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<jgoerzen> stu: ahh that machine. Don't you think that something named |
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stallman deserves to be an Alpha? :-) |
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<stu> jgoerzen: no, actually, I'd prolly be more inclined to name a 386 |
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with 4 megs of ram and a 40 meg hard drive stallman. |
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<stu> with a big fat case that makes tons of noise and rattles the floor |
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<stu> and.. |
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<stu> double-height hard drive |
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