KWifiManager is not being built when I emerge KDENetwork (version 3.2) It should be built, since it is now included in that package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge KDENetwork 2. 3. Actual Results: No kwifimanager application or kicker applet Expected Results: Should have kwifimanager application and kicker applet
I found the issue. wireless-tools needs to be emerged before kdenetwork. It would probably be useful to add a USE flag (wifi) for kdenetwork that would place that dependency on wireless-tools - that way you don't have to think about it too much! :) I would submit a patch, but I'm still new to Gentoo, and don't know about how ebuilds work very well....
there already have been two discussion about the use flag on -dev. There was no real descission, but i propose to use "wlan" as a global useflag (wifi would include bluetooth, etc.) Caleb can you add this please :)
Will do - let me know when you've got "wlan" in place.
ok, a global use flag wasn't accepted since kdenetwork seems the only package at the moment, so we make it local.
i added wifi to use.local.desc, we only have to add the following deps to kdenetwork: wifi? ( net-wirelesse/wireless-tools )
added, but commented out until other arches get wireless-tools support. I also added: use wifi || DO_NOT_COMPILE="$DO_NOT_COMPILE wifi"
I've tried to test this today, but I'm afraid it doesn't work for me. The USE flag portion of my ebuild now looks like this: DEPEND="~kde-base/kdebase-${PV} slp? ( net-libs/openslp ) samba? ( net-fs/samba ) !net-im/kopete wifi? ( net-wireless/wireless-tools )" and since that didn't do much good yet, I commented that other line # use wifi || DO_NOT_COMPILE="$DO_NOT_COMPILE wifi" too, but even though the wifi USE flag is echoed early on during emerge, I'm still getting these messages during compilation: checking if wifi should be compiled... no then checking if wireless tools >= 25 are installed... no checking if wireless tools >= 27 are installed... yes and then finally: You're missing the wireless tools libraries, or the wireless tools header files. Without these, KWiFiManager and the kwireless applet will not be compiled. You are unable to monitor wireless LAN connections without these. Meanwhile, back in the jungle, this is what my environment looks like: Wireless tools version 27-pre22 are installed Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.6-mm4) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.6-mm4 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.15 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distcc fixpackages sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb canna cdr cjk crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype wifi x86 xface xfs xml2 xmms xv" I've tried this first with the wireless.h (version 15) from /usr/include/linux (That's from linux-headers 2.4.22, I suppose) and then with a copied-over one from /usr/src/linux-2.6.6-mm4/include/linux/wireless.h (version 16)
Please explain how this is Resolved/Fixed? A number of us are still having this very problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1247567#1247567
tell me what i can do to fix it and I will try and help - I don't use any wireless stuff, so all I can do is speculate.
Thank you Caleb. A while back y'all had tenatively added wifi as a switch in USE=, and as of KDENetwork3.2.2 it appears to be fully folded in, as the wifi lines are no longer commented out. There were problems with iwlib.h not linked (fixed) and wireless.h not making it into /usr/include (not fixed). As I understand it, wireless.h must be the one from wireless-tools, not the kernel build, so when I - emerge wireless-tools, and - copy wireless.h from the wireless-tools work directory to /usr/include, and - ensure wifi is not commented out in the kdenetwork-3.2.2.ebuild, and - set wifi as one of my switchen in make.conf, and - re-emerge kdenetwork, it recognizes that wireless-tools 27 is installed, but says it's not to compile it, for reasons which I do not understand. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1247567#1247567
If you go into kdenetwork's build directory and look inside of config.log, it will show the configure checks that happened and what may have caused it not to be built.
OK, I found that there's an update to K, so I upgraded to 3.2.3 . I then moved wireless.h into /usr/include and now KDENetwork compiles KWifiManager! But please be aware that - when KDENetwork is sizing the install, it thinks that BOTH wireless-tools versions 2.5 and 2.7 are installed, and - wireless.h is still not copying into /usr/include . Thanks C. Very, very nice distro, BTW. I have a suggestion, but have no idea where to put it in the forums, as these (high-handed) Mods make decisions which I do not understand. As I have so much software installed now,and these Hitachi notebook diskdrives fail every six months, it would be nice if I could back up /etc, /home, and /var/cache/edb/world files, so in an emergency I could restore by building a base system and then using the contents of world to reconstruct my system automatically, without me having to take another week to do it by hand. Even better would be an addon to emerge like: emerge saveworld /dl/mysystem (a text list of installed distfiles) emerge restoreworld /dl/mysystem FWIW
