Bugzilla Bug 96323

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 an attachment (id=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