Hi, currently the ipw2100-1.1.2-r3 ebuild depends at >=net-wireless/wireless-tools-27_pre23. wireless-tools-27_pre26 and wireless-tools-27-r1 (currently the latest stable marked) provide support for wireless extensions version 17. But ipw2100-1.1.2-r3 needs wireless extensions version 18 support. Thus the ipw ebuild should depend at >=wireless-tools-28_pre9. BTW, if an old version of wpa_supplicant is already installed, this ebuild should depend at >= wpa_supplicant-0.4.4, too. Because the interface between wpa_supplicant und ipw changed (now uses -Dwext instead of -Dipw). Don't know, but perhaps a wpa USE-flag would be useful for some wlan-users. Regards Georg Sauthoff Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
You only need WE-18 support if ipw2100 is compiled against a kernel with WE-18 support, the driver itself does not decide which WE version it supports. The depend on >=net-wireless/wireless-tools-27_pre23 is due to the fact that this is the first WT version, which supports the power settings of the ipw2100 driver. The ebuild will never depend on wpa_supplicant (nor bridge-utils or other setup utils) as these are not direct dependencies.
