Bug 384125 – net-wireless/iwl1000-ucode-128.50.3.1 is still needed for kernel 2.6.38

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pacho Ramos 2011-09-22 19:08:09 UTC]

I am forced to still use 2.6.38 kernel as it's the latest one with tuxonice support in gentoo. 

The problem is that it needs iwl1000-ucode-128.50.3.1 as it provides iwlwifi-1000-3.ucode instead of iwlwifi-1000-5.ucode

Then, old version needs to be reintroduced and probably on a different slot

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Ulrich Müller 2011-09-23 07:04:57 UTC]

I've restored the old version in SLOT 3, without keywords.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-23 10:37:28 UTC]

Thanks, if you ever want to keyword it on amd64 feel free to ask me for testing :-)

[Comment 3 Ulrich Müller 2011-09-23 10:52:18 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks, if you ever want to keyword it on amd64 feel free to ask me for
> testing

Can't keyword due to upstream's strange versioning scheme (the newer version has a smaller version number).

[Comment 4 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-23 10:59:30 UTC]

In that case maybe a warning should be shown by iwl1000-ucode-39.31.5.1.ebuild telling people using kernel-2.6.38 or older (haven't tried 2.6.39 yet :S) to use unkeyworded version, otherwise people will get 39.31.5.1 version installed and trying to use an unkeyworded version for older kernels doesn't seem to obvious for me if not knowing this bug

[Comment 5 Ulrich Müller 2011-09-24 13:50:56 UTC]

According to my logs, I had used iwl1000-ucode-39.31.5.1 together with gentoo-sources-2.6.39 on my laptop. (Could somebody please independently verify that this combination works?)

The ebuild now outputs a warning in pkg_pretend if the kernel is older than 2.6.39.

[Comment 6 Pacho Ramos 2011-09-24 13:56:41 UTC]

Thanks a lot

[Comment 7 Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn 2011-10-22 23:32:45 UTC]

*** Bug 388165 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***