Bug 148674 - ~amd64 keyword request for net-wireless/ipw3945 and friends
Bug#: 148674 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: AMD64
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: amd64@gentoo.org Reported By: mikael.gerdin@gmail.com
Component: Ebuilds
URL: 
Summary: ~amd64 keyword request for net-wireless/ipw3945 and friends
Keywords:  
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2006-09-22 10:34 0000
Description:   Opened: 2006-09-22 10:34 0000
Now that laptops with Intel's Core 2 Duo CPU has entered the market, some
people (like me) want to run them in 64-bit mode.
Most of these laptops use Intel's ProWireless 3945-chip for wireless
networking.
I have tested the driver by manually editing the ebuilds (adding ~amd64
keyword), and it works, at least with my AP at home.
The ebuilds are:
net-wireless/ipw3945
net-wireless/ipw3945d
net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode


[emerge --info]
Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3,
2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @
2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5
Last Sync: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:00:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.29
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo
http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo"
LINGUAS=""
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/micke"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa arts asf audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dv dvb
dvd dvdr dvdread dvdrw eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam fbsplash ffmpeg
firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal ieee1394 imap
input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde kernel_linux
libg++ mad matroska mikmod mmx2 mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin
offensive ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt4
quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sndfile spell spl sse3 sse4 ssl
tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU
video_cards_fbdev video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa vorbis wifi xine xml xorg
xprint xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

------- Comment #1 From Stephane Bausseron 2006-11-02 15:10:33 0000 -------
I confirme, ipw build et run on amd64.

------- Comment #2 From Stephane Bausseron 2006-11-02 15:28:25 0000 -------
ipw3945 run, sorry, my vernum key was unlock.

------- Comment #3 From Erik Quaeghebeur 2006-11-25 10:59:57 0000 -------
I'm trying to install this package on an mostly stable amd64 system, but it
fails. Any pointers appreciated. Info follows:

Installed:
* net-wireless/ieee80211-1.2.15
* net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.13
* net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.18

Want to install:
* net-wireless/ipw3945-1.0.5

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/ipw3945-1.0.5 to /
 * ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz MD5 ;-) ...                                               
                                 [ ok ]
 * ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz RMD160 ;-) ...                                            
                                                       [ ok ]
 * ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz SHA1 ;-) ...                                              
                                                       [ ok ]
 * ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz SHA256 ;-) ...                                            
                                                       [ ok ]
 * ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz size ;-) ...                                              
                                                       [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                           
                                                       [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                          
                                                       [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                         
                                                       [ ok ]
 * checking ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz ;-) ...                                          
                                                       [ ok ]
 * Determining the location of the kernel source code
 * Found kernel source directory:
 *     /usr/src/linux
 * Found sources for kernel version:
 *     2.6.18-gentoo-r3
 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...                       
                                                       [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking ipw3945-1.0.5.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work
>>> Source unpacked.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5 ...
 * Preparing ipw3945 module
make -C /usr/src/linux M=/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5
modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r3'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.o
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function
'ipw_send_associate':
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:4292: error: too
few arguments to function 'ieee80211_tx_frame'
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function
'ipw_bg_daemon_cmd':
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:4765: error: too
few arguments to function 'ieee80211_tx_frame'
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function
'ipw_auth_work':
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:9381: error: too
few arguments to function 'ieee80211_tx_frame'
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:9426: error: too
few arguments to function 'ieee80211_tx_frame'
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c: In function
'ipw_handle_probe_request':
/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.c:9496: error: too
few arguments to function 'ieee80211_tx_frame'
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5/ipw3945.o]
Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/ipw3945-1.0.5/work/ipw3945-1.0.5] Error
2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18-gentoo-r3'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/ipw3945-1.0.5 failed.
Call stack:
  ebuild.sh, line 1546:   Called dyn_compile
  ebuild.sh, line 937:   Called src_compile
  ipw3945-1.0.5.ebuild, line 73:   Called linux-mod_src_compile
  linux-mod.eclass, line 510:   Called die

!!! Unable to make  KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux
IEEE80211_INC=/usr/include all.
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.


emerge --info:

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7200  @
2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 13:50:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en_US nl"
MAKEOPTS="-j7"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 7zip X aac aalib acpi alsa arts audiofile bash-completion berkdb
bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dhcp dlloader dri
dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emboss encode fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran
gcc64 gcj gd gdbm gif gmp gpm gs gstreamer gtk2 hal haskell iconv idn
imagemagick imap input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
input_devices_synaptics isdnlog java javascript jpeg justify kcal kde
kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux lapack largeterminal lcms ldap
libcaca libg++ linguas_en_US linguas_nl lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mime mng
mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mplayer mppe-mppc ncurses network nls nodrm nptl
nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcre pdf perl pic plotutils png ppds pppd
python qt3 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl sensord session slang spell
spl ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1 type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU userlocales video_cards_fbdev
video_cards_i810 video_cards_vesa visualisations vorbis wifi wmf xcomposite
xine xml xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

------- Comment #4 From Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-11-29 03:00:04 0000 -------
*** Bug 156588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

------- Comment #5 From Helge Jung 2006-12-11 05:52:35 0000 -------
I can confirm several successfull (and working) compiles on Intel Core2 Duo by
adding ~amd64 in the ebuild files. Works like a charm, please add the keyword
to the regular ebuild (I have a copy of it in my portdir_overlay).

------- Comment #6 From Thomas Fischer 2006-12-12 01:45:46 0000 -------
Confirmed that this package works fine with a Core 2 Duo T7400 CPU (~amd64).
Please add the ~amd64 keyword.

net-wireless/ieee80211-1.2.15  USE="-debug"
net-wireless/ipw3945-1.1.2  USE="-debug"
net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r3 
net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.13

------- Comment #7 From Lloeki 2006-12-14 08:27:42 0000 -------
confirmed to work flawlessly on my dell xps c2d T7200, running amd64 and
relevant versions like comment #6
I too recommend it for a ~amd64.

------- Comment #8 From Radek Podgorny 2006-12-16 07:16:18 0000 -------
Another success here on T5600 (Intel Core 2 Duo).

------- Comment #9 From Erik Quaeghebeur 2006-12-16 07:27:23 0000 -------
(In reply to comment #3)
The problem I encountered seems to be resolved:

I installed (on a core 2 duo system with mostly stable amd64 gentoo):
* net-wireless/ieee80211-1.2.15
* net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.13
* net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.22-r3
* net-wireless/ipw3945-1.1.3

I therefore also request the necessary packages go ~amd64.

------- Comment #10 From wojtek 2006-12-17 17:30:12 0000 -------
no problem with
* net-wireless/ieee80211-1.2.15
* net-wireless/ipw3945-ucode-1.13
* net-wireless/ipw3945d-1.7.18

everything works on Core 2 Duo ( T5600 ~amd64)

------- Comment #11 From davide.angelocola@tiscali.it 2006-12-24 16:57:38 0000 -------
I confirme, ipw3945 build and run on amd64. Please add the ~amd64 keyword.

------- Comment #12 From Piotr JaroszyƄski 2006-12-28 14:26:19 0000 -------
Thank you all for testing, all done.