I have hostap-driver-0.1.3 installed with 'USE="pcmcia -hostap-nopci -hostap-noplx' (although I've tried using only 'USE=pcmcia' too). When I install ipw2100 (0.44 or 0.45) I get: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in //lib/modules/2.4.25-gentoo-r3/net/ipw2100.o depmod: hostap_get_crypto_ops ... and the module fails to modprobe. This looks like probably a HostAP problem - but can anyone assist in getting the ipw2100 driver to work? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: USE="hostap-nopci hostap-noplx" emerge -v hostap-driver ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -v ipw2100 Actual Results: Modprobe fails with unresolved symbol errors Expected Results: A loaded ipw2100.o module Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Portage 2.0.50-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-gentoo-r3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache fixpackages sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 Xaw3d aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid atlas avantgo avi berkdb bonobo caps cdr crypt cscope cups curl dga directfb dvd encode esd ethereal evo fam fastcgi fbcon firebird flac flash foomaticdb freetds gb gd gdbm ggi gif gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile icc icc-pgo imap imlib informix innodb intel8x0 ipv6 jack jack-tmpfs java javascript joystick jpeg junit kde kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms ldap libg++ libgda libwww mad maildir mbox mcal memlimit mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpi mysql nas ncurses nls oci8 odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl physfs pic plotutils png pnp postgres ppds prelude python qt quicktime radeon readline samba sasl scanner sdl skey slang slp snmp socks5 speex spell sqlite sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb video_cards_radeon wmf wxwindows x86 xface xinerama xml xml2 xmms xosd xv zeo zlib"
Please try the new 0.48 i just added to portage that no longer uses hostap-driver for its WEP implementation.
Cheers - I've now migrated to 2.6.x and the ipw2100 driver works just fine for me.