Bug 96323 - adm8211-20050323 (New Package)
Bug#: 96323 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: 2005.0 Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: enhancement Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: mobile@gentoo.org Reported By: weaver@gentoo.org
Component: Core system
URL:  http://aluminum.sourmilk.net/adm8211/
Summary: adm8211-20050323 (New Package)
Keywords:  EBUILD, REQUEST
Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2005-06-16 17:02 0000
Description:   Opened: 2005-06-16 17:02 0000 
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.

------- Comment #1 From Daniel Drake 2005-06-17 01:16:33 0000 ------- 
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.

------- Comment #2 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-17 01:29:41 0000 ------- 
Actually, the provided Makefile is geared towards external compilation. Should
be trivial to write a linux-mod.eclass based ebuild for it.

------- Comment #3 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-17 02:51:43 0000 ------- 
Created an attachment (id=61375) [details]
adm8211-20050323.ebuild

Here's an ebuild for the adm8211-20050323 driver. Please test.

------- Comment #4 From Andrey Kislyuk 2005-06-17 05:08:44 0000 ------- 
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?

------- Comment #5 From Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-06-17 05:15:03 0000 ------- 
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?

------- Comment #6 From Andrey Kislyuk 2005-06-17 08:43:46 0000 ------- 
The ebuild works fine here, thanks.

------- Comment #7 From Stefan Schweizer 2005-06-21 05:05:28 0000 ------- 
in portage now. The old adm8211-20050323 version is marked stable on x86,
please
include it on the livecd.

------- Comment #8 From Stefan Schweizer 2005-06-21 05:07:14 0000 ------- 
fixed

------- Comment #9 From Andrey Kislyuk 2005-06-21 09:33:43 0000 ------- 
Works for me on amd64, please add keyword

------- Comment #10 From Stefan Schweizer 2005-06-21 09:55:22 0000 ------- 
please open a separate bugreport for amd64

------- Comment #11 From Andrey Kislyuk 2005-06-21 10:01:06 0000 ------- 
Bug 96714