36326 – Kill net-wireless/hostap

Bug 36326 - Kill net-wireless/hostap

Summary: Kill net-wireless/hostap

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Peter Johanson (RETIRED)

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Blocks:	41141
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Reported:	2003-12-22 17:07 UTC by Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-09-14 09:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-22 17:07:55 UTC

These are old and seem only to cause confusion. Is there any hardware that only works with these and not newer ones? I suggest you remove it, or make it a "top level" package, that depends hostap-driver and hostap-utils.

Either that, or make a note during installation that more recent drivers are available as hostap-driver.

At least I was confused;)

Comment 1 Pau Oliva 2003-12-30 17:06:25 UTC

Also, please note that the new hostap-driver ebuild should be fixed:

- It depends on pcmcia-cs package even if you have pcmcia support in your kernel
- It doesn't work with 2.6 kernels

Comment 2 Conrad Hoffmann 2004-01-27 15:23:14 UTC

i think the ebuild needs to determine if a 2.6 kernel is used and call "make 2.6" in that case, the sources do compile ok this way...

Comment 3 Abri le Roux 2004-02-22 06:16:48 UTC

I would agree, the net-wireless/hostap ebuild definitely causes confusion.

Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-09-14 09:45:10 UTC

net-wireless/hostap was removed from portage. Closing as FIXED.