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From: John Green <jg012b8403_2@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:58:59
Message-Id: 433C2848.80003@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile ipw2100 against kernel 2.6.13 by Richard Fish
1 Richard Fish wrote:
2
3 > John Green wrote:
4 >
5 >> the problem might be with ieee80211. A detailed look at my log file for
6 >> rebuilding ieee80211
7 >> under 2.6.13.2 showed that the ebuild tried to delete kernel file
8 >> include/net/ieee80211.h,
9 >> but failed with insufficient privilege, even though emerge was running
10 >> as root. I deleted
11 >> the kernel header file by hand and the ebuild for ipw2100 then ran
12 >> successfully.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >
16 > BTW, the current ~x86 version of the ipw2100 ebuild has a check for
17 > this, and if the file exists, it will prompt you to remove it and then
18 > fail the build.
19 >
20 > You might try:
21 >
22 > echo "net-wireless/ipw2100 ~x86" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
23 > emerge -Dv net-wireless/ipw2100
24 >
25 > I'm using ipw2100-1.1.2-r3 with suspend2-sources-2.6.13-r4 without any
26 > significant problems.
27 >
28 > -Richard
29 >
30 Thanks for the tip, but it did not help. I still get no communication
31 when running with 2.6.13.2.
32
33 I guess I'll wait for 2.6.14 and try again.
34
35 John Green
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