I emerged from ieee80211-13.1 to ieee80211-1.1.14-r1 and experienced a bug upon reboot. When I rebooted the radio was off on my card (Intel IPW2200), so I tried to re-enable it via the hardware button (Fn-F2 on my laptop, which has worked in the past). The fist time I did this, the card still did not function, I then ran rmmod ipw2200 followed by modprobe ipw2200 led=1. This caused a kernel panic, so I was forced to reboot. Upon rebooting the system kernal paniced again during the module loading stage of boot (in my modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 I have the entry ipw2200 led=1). I rebooted again and another panic occured at the same place (module load phase). I then booted, but prior to loading a kernel (during the grub screen), I disable the radio using the hardware button (Fn-F2); this time the kernel loaded without any issues however the radio was down (as one would expect). I then re-emerged ipw2200, rmmod'ed the current module, and inserted the newly emerged ipw2200 module (however this time I ommitted the LED line). The module inserted without any problems, but the radio was still off. I crossed my fingers and pressed Fn-F2 and this time the radio came on without any problems. I have since rebooted without any problems (I removed the led=1 line from mod*/kernel-2.6 as well). I'm not certain what the cause of the problem was (it may be that ipw2200 needs to be re-emerged against the ieee80211-14.1, or it may be that you can't use led=1 to turn on the WiFi light anymore). I am running kernel 2.6.17-beyond3 on a Dell D610 (Pentium-M). The WiFi card is an Intel Pro Wireless 2200, and the driver I'm using is ipw2200-1.1.3 and ipw2200-firmware-3.0. I also have a Dell DW350 bluetooth card and am running udev-099.
(In reply to comment #0) > I am running kernel 2.6.17-beyond3 Reopen with emerge --info, your kernel .config and the relevant part of kernel errors you get if you are able to reproduce this with a supported kernel. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml#doc_chap2
Got the same problem (2.6.17.11), after a rebuild of ipw2200 the problem was gone.
Same problem, solution provided here worked, using linux-2.6.17-gentoo
