Portage 2.1_pre7-r5 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-4.1.0, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.16-ck3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-ck3 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre17 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 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-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fforce-addr -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -ffast-math -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fforce-addr -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache cvs distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/gentoo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt ctype dba dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread expat fastbuild force-cgi-redirect ftp gd gif gnome gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg memlimit mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin objc ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl pic png posix pppd python quicktime readline sasl sdl session simplexml soap sockets socks5 spell spl ssl tcpd tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xine xml xsl xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS As some devices such as bcm43xx still require ya to set rate manually to 11M it is critical that package be masked or fixed.
Problem confirmed and version 29_pre p.masked. Thank you for reporting this. I'll look into the cause tomorrow.
Fixed by Jean in net-wireless/wireless-tools-29_pre9. Thank you for reporting this - and thanks to Jean for the prompt fix.