Bug 166422 – net-wireless/d80211-intel (new ebuild)

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description smrspam88 2007-02-11 21:45:05 UTC]

Hi,
Intel released a patched version of the devicescape 80211 wlan stack which is needed for the new iwlwifi driver.
I wrote an ebuild but it has the following issue:
You are still required to manually build the module, the ebuild just patches your kernel sources. This is a rather bad idea anyway I think, but that's the way intel describes the installation procedure in their README.
So if any more competent ebuild writer could address this issue I would be glad.

Bye,
Momsen

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 smrspam88 2007-02-11 21:45:45 UTC]

Created attachment 109899 [details]
net-wireless/d80211-intel

[Comment 2 smrspam88 2007-02-14 13:57:59 UTC]

New version 1.0.1. This ebuild is mostly based on the work rmh3093 and Lloeki  in 

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3906197.html#3906197

[Comment 3 smrspam88 2007-02-14 13:59:10 UTC]

Created attachment 110168 [details]
new ebuild which fixes most issues

[Comment 4 smrspam88 2007-03-09 22:47:50 UTC]

The recent changes to the former "devicescape stack" (now called mac80211) made it impossible to build it as a module without modifications to the actual kernel. 

Refer to intelwireless.org for further information. Just for the record, the patches are now in -mm.

Closing as WONTFIX (hope that is appropriate)

[Comment 5 Dick Marinus 2007-04-18 21:22:42 UTC]

Please see bug #174946 for an ebuild of mac80211