Portage is unable to find any source for net-wireless/ipw2200 For example: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-wireless/ipw2200-0.18 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz --19:12:47-- http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz' Resolving gentoo.osuosl.org... 140.211.166.134 Connecting to gentoo.osuosl.org[140.211.166.134]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 19:12:48 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz --19:12:48-- http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz' Resolving distro.ibiblio.org... 152.2.210.109 Connecting to distro.ibiblio.org[152.2.210.109]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found 19:12:50 ERROR 404: Not Found. >>> Downloading ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz --19:12:50-- ftp://gentoo.mirrored.ca/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz => `/usr/portage/distfiles/ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz' Resolving gentoo.mirrored.ca... 209.47.158.136 Connecting to gentoo.mirrored.ca[209.47.158.136]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /distfiles ... done. ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz ... No such file `ipw2200-fw-2.1.tgz'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
You just had to wait for a little while, it was being uploaded to the mirrors, should be fine now.
As Hinrik said, it simply takes some time for the firmware file to be mirrored.