AVT8211 is a 802.11b chip. I'm not sure how broadly it's used but I have one. There is a driver in advanced development at http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/adm8211/ and it looks stable on my machine. The driver hasn't been accepted to the mainline kernel yet (maybe to -mm, I haven't checked). Sample lspci output: 0000:00:0d.0 Network controller: Linksys ADMtek ADM8211 802.11b Wireless Interface (rev 11) Please include in gentoo-sources.
mobile: fancy patching the makefile and writing an ebuild to build this as an external kernel module? This won't be included in gentoo-sources but it should be easy to build outside of the kernel sources for now.
Actually, the provided Makefile is geared towards external compilation. Should be trivial to write a linux-mod.eclass based ebuild for it.
Created attachment 61375 [details] adm8211-20050323.ebuild Here's an ebuild for the adm8211-20050323 driver. Please test.
May I add that a separate package is of not much use to someone who wants to boot, connect and install from livecd and whose only network card is an adm8211. What's the policy that prevents this from going into gentoo-sources?
Well, if this ebuild makes it way into portage you just need to convince our release engineers to include it on the next livecd. It will not go into gentoo-sources as it can be handled as en external ebuild more easily. This is the way gentoo works; if something can be done as a stand-alone ebuild it should be preferred. This way we can update the adm8211 driver without having to bump the kernel version - and only users who actually need that particular driver will have to install it. Have you tested the attached ebuild?
The ebuild works fine here, thanks.
in portage now. The old adm8211-20050323 version is marked stable on x86, please include it on the livecd.
fixed
Works for me on amd64, please add keyword
please open a separate bugreport for amd64
Bug 96714
