Bugzilla Bug 26955

hey sparc peeps,

i just marked net-wireless/wireless-tools-26 stable on x86. it includes some
features and some bugfixes, including better support for wireless extensions v16
(which is default in upcoming 2.6.x). No clue the state of wireless on sparc, so
can someone check this out if possible for me?


-pete

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Might be a while before we can get to this as the wireless hardware that
*might* be usable on sparc is pretty small and I'm not sure how many of us have
wireless hw.  Users feel free to comment :)

As we need linux-wlan-ng to build modules for wireless devices, and egcs and
3rd party modules don't get along during compilation, I'm adding bug #24631 as
a dependency for this bug.

The manpage for iwgetid is not installed...

Basically the reason we're torturing poor pete here is due to a lack of
wireless hardware with good working drivers.  I gots no prism PCI cards, and
the one 802.11g card I do have doesn't work so well on sparc with the kernel's
prism54 drivers.  Once we can get access to some hw that works well enough to
test this, we'll do it up.

6 years later...

Finally got an 802.11b PCI card (prism2) for ye olde SPARC.  Initial testing with the tools (particularly iwconfig and iwlist) produces either errors or seg faults.  

However, attempting to run them through strace makes them behave properly.  Gustavoz is going to look into this as well once he gets a card, but just thought I'd update you all.

FYI: net-wireless/wireless-tools-27 is now stable on x86.

Further sparc comment:
If I had to guess, I'd say that some of these problems start when the build decides that my system (ultrasparc=sparcv9) is
actually sparcv8.  I don't know if that is because we run in v9,32-bit-user-mode, or because it just gets it wrong.

I might look at it further, but not at a very high priority, so don't feel compelled to wait for me. :)  (I actually know what pari is and don't need it for anything right now.)

Rats: Ignore that.  wrong bug. I hate bugzilla.

Finally, an update after many moons of nothingness;

The combination of kernel 2.6.12-rc6 + linux-headers-2.4.26-r1 +
wireless-tools-28_pre8 has gotten us to a point where wireless-tools works on a
~sparc box.  Once linux-headers-2.5.26-r1 goes stable, I'll probably mark a
newer version stable on SPARC and call it a day.

Adding ia64 to CC: to hopefully get net-wireless/wireless-tools-27 marked
~ia64/ia64 as well...

Any progress on this?

Fixed thanks to the sparc and ia64 herds.