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On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> They're going to install wireless in my school so I guess I better |
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> get this working sometime soon : ) |
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Several people responded to your request so far, and maybe that has |
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solved your problem. But no-one fully answered your original question, |
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so fwiw here's my answer. You may not need this info if the standard |
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driver in the kernel works for you. |
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> I isolated my problem to this: |
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> emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because |
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> it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in |
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> either module or enabled. It needs it disabled. |
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Yes, you can't have a module in the kernel code-tree and another |
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external module emerged at the same time - you end up with two |
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different modules with the same name and that's a conflict |
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> I tried to use menuconfig and disable it, however, the only way I can |
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> do that is by literally disabling ALL networking - drivers and all. |
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> Kernel is kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r8. |
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As Bo said, that kernel comes with ipw2100 drivers and they might suit |
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your needs. But I have an ipw2200 card and the kernel tree modules |
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don't work well for me, so I have to emerge ipw2200. You might find the |
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same. |
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> I'm considering editing the makefile and removing its dependency on |
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> that blasted kernel configuration setting! |
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No, don't do that. Instead read the emerge messages and do what they |
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say. |
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You first have to disable ipw2100 in menuconfig. It's one of the |
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networking device drivers, so just unselect it. |
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ipw2100 also comes with it's own ieee80211 which must also replace the |
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existing code in the kernel. In menuconfig, go to Networking and |
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there's a section called Wirelss (non ham radio) or similar. Enable it, |
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and press enter. Now the config knows about wireless, but deselect the |
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ieee80211 and ieee80211crypt stuff at the bottom of the list. |
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Exit save and compile. |
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Then emerge ipw2100 and ieee80211. You may get a message that you have |
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to remove code files from the kernel tree, with a command supplied that |
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you have to run. That's OK, just run it (the files that get deleted are |
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replaced with the out-of-tree modules you are about to merge. |
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Then read up everything you can on the new baselayout networking |
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configuration. There's info on the gentoo docs, the wiki and it's been |
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beaten to death on this list, so no need for me to repeat all that now |
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Continue, share, enjoy |
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alan |
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