I have a ipw2200 wireless connection with WPA/PSK at home. Everything had been working normally until yesterday I updated net-wireless/ ieee80211 from 1.2.15 to 1.2.16. The module kept crashing itself as long as it was loaded. However the module works fine without WPA enabled. I found the following message during the emerging process: "unpack ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch: file format not recognized. Ignoring." Could it be the cause of the problem? Thanks. Code: null distfiles # emerge ieee80211 Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/ieee80211-1.2.16 to / * ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz size ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch MD5 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch RMD160 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch SHA1 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch SHA256 ;-) ... [ ok ] * ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch ;-) ... [ ok ] * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Found kernel object directory: * /lib/modules/2.6.19-ck2-r4/build * Found sources for kernel version: * 2.6.19-ck2-r4 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking ieee80211-1.2.16.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.2.16/work >>> Unpacking ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch to /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.2.16/work unpack ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch: file format not recognized. Ignoring. * Applying ieee80211-1.2.16-crypt-fix2.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.2.16/work/ieee80211-1.2.16 ...
It's a completely harmless warning b/c the patch is not gzipped, so there's nothing to unpack.