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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:25:15
Message-Id: 433B173D.9030009@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13 by John Green
1 John Green wrote:
2
3 >the problem might be with ieee80211. A detailed look at my log file for
4 >rebuilding ieee80211
5 >under 2.6.13.2 showed that the ebuild tried to delete kernel file
6 >include/net/ieee80211.h,
7 >but failed with insufficient privilege, even though emerge was running
8 >as root. I deleted
9 >the kernel header file by hand and the ebuild for ipw2100 then ran
10 >successfully.
11 >
12 >
13
14 BTW, the current ~x86 version of the ipw2100 ebuild has a check for
15 this, and if the file exists, it will prompt you to remove it and then
16 fail the build.
17
18 You might try:
19
20 echo "net-wireless/ipw2100 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
21 emerge -Dv net-wireless/ipw2100
22
23 I'm using ipw2100-1.1.2-r3 with suspend2-sources-2.6.13-r4 without any
24 significant problems.
25
26 -Richard
27
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13 John Green <jg012b8403_2@×××××××××××××.uk>