I'd like to see an ebuild for the acx100 driver. It works fine with 2.6 and 2.4. I had two solutions in mind: 1.) add as seperate driver 2.) add as kernel-patch since in 2.6 you have to compile the driver in kernel path, the second idea is what i like most. but currently this is not supported via "make menuconfig", but i will ask the developers for adding this support. take a look at the URL i added. i'd like to make an ebuild by myself, but i really lack knowledge in kernel-ebuilds and currently have no time to learn it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
To easy the pain :) http://luca.pca.it/projects/acx100/ This site hosts a kernel patch (i haven't had the time to test it, will give feedback when i'm done testing)
The patch works with some issues: - it only works against /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-acx100 - patching Makefile failes! (added support by hand) - Kconfig changes are made three times, which causes that there are three entries in "make menuconfig"
i found out that the current cvs-version supports compilation outside of the kernel tree. this would make an ebuild much simpler. i will give it a try later this day.
Created attachment 28003 [details] net-wireless/acx100-0.2.0_pre7.ebuild NON-WORKING ebuild for the acx100 driver. It crashes during a sandbox violation and i can't figure out why :( Maybe someone with knowledge might take a look at it.
Created attachment 30171 [details] net-wireless/acx100-0.2.0_pre8.ebuild NON-WORKING ebuild for new version. it still sandbox-violates. if someone could help me rewriting the "make install" i guess it would work.
I've been looking into this, and may I suggest that the user installs the firmware himself, as there are so many different versions that actually work (eg my dwl-560+ uses a differnet firmware to the 520+ afaik), also there is currently no way to get around the sandbox violations, you've just got to set FEATURES="-sandbox". Adding lots of instructions on the end on where to get the various firmwares and where to put which files should be ok. I'll post an updated ebuild tomorrow at some point
Well, I'm not sure that anyone is still working on this thing however I have come up with a better way to do the pre version / fix deal. It goes something like this. Filename: acx100-0.2.0_pre8-r14.ebuild then have this code in the ebuild itself that will set all the version stuff for you. VER=${PV/"_"/""} REV=${PR/"r"/"_plus_fixes_"} ACX_VER=${PN}-${VER}${REV} SRC_URI="http://rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de/~andi/acx100/${ACX_VER}.tar.bz2" This is a hack so it might not conform to portage standards, however not sure what else we could do since the filename from acx seems a little strange. Anyone made any progress with getting this thing to compile? Also I agree that downloading would be best I suppose. However, I think one could get quite complex and try to pull the information from /proc/pci to see which card the user has??? I'm working on an ebuild, if I have any luck I'll post it here.
I tried to fix my ebuild to get this running, but for me it's impossible, since it calls functions ("make", i think) in the /usr/src/linux directory. My idea was: ./Configure || die "configure failed" sed -i -e "s:=\/:=\$\{D\}\/:g" config.mk ||
I tried to fix my ebuild to get this running, but for me it's impossible, since it calls functions ("make", i think) in the /usr/src/linux directory. My idea was: ./Configure || die "configure failed" sed -i -e "s:=\/:=\$\{D\}\/:g" config.mk ||¢die "sed failed" dodir `grep KERNEL_BUILD config.mk | cut -c 18-` || die "dodir failed" dodir `grep KERNEL_OUTPUT config.mk | cut -c 19-` || die "dodir failed" dosym ${ROOT}${KERNEL_DIR} ${D}/`grep KERNEL_BUILD config.mk | cut -c 18-` || die "symlinking failed" make || die "make failed" The symlink wouldn't work for me, but maybe someone else can use this idea. Next to that: Christopher Fords idea look very good to me!!
The ACX100 developpers do not send the new versions to Sourceforge anymore. You can find the latest builds at http://lisas.de/~andi/acx100/.
Additional hint: According to bug #32737 someone got acx100 building with an ebuild. I'm not sure how he did this, I wasn't able to do so. Maybe someone else could try it. I failed with a missing firmware.eclass. But since there is no need for that (the user should get the firmware himself), it might work, but I have a huge lack of time so I cannot do it :(
Created attachment 45699 [details] net-wireless/acx100-0.2.0_pre8 Ladies and gentleman ... i proudly present: The WORKING acx100 ebuild :D
forgot to say: tested with 2.6 kernel, only. someone should check 2.4 since I'm quite sure the install routine will fail.
Created attachment 49398 [details] acx100-0.2.0_pre8.ebuild please test and comment if this works for you.
in portage, thanks
