Emerging prism54-20050125 fails due to: !!! Digest verification Failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/prism54-svn=20050125.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. =net-wireless/prism54-20050125 Actual Results: Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-wireless/prism54-20050125 to / !!! Digest verification Failed: !!! /usr/portage/distfiles/prism54-svn=20050125.tar.bz2 !!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size Expected Results: net-wireless/prism54-20050125 should be merged into the system Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-nitro4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-nitro4 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Dec 18 2004, 18:16:52)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.9.4, 1.5, 1.7.9 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://acm.cs.rpi.edu/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 S3TC X X509 aac aalib acl acpi activefilter adns aim alsa apache2 apm audiofile avantgo avi bash-completion bcmath bdf berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzlib cap cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi chroot cjk client cpdflib crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dio divx4linux djbfft dnd droproot dv dvb dvd dvdread edl eds encode erandom esd evo exif ext-png ext-zlib extensions f77 faac faad fam fastcgi fbcon ffmpeg flac flash fluidsynth fmod font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype freewnn ftp gb gcl gd gdbm geoip gif gimp gimpprint ginac glade glgd glut gmail gmp gmtfull gnome gnomedb gnuplot gpm gps graphviz gs gsl gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hbci hdf howl iconv icq ide idl ieee1394 image imap imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 irda irmc j2ee jabber java javacomm javadoc javamail javascript jbig jboss jce jms jmx joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k jta junit jython kadu-modules kadu-voice kakasi kerberos krb4 latex lcms ldap leim libdsk libg++ libgd libgda libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors lua lufsusermount lzo lzw lzw-tiff m17n-lib mad maildir mbox mcal mdb memlimit mhash migemo mikmod mime mixer mmap mmx mng mozcalendar mozdomi mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn mule music mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh native ncurses net network nis nls nptl ntlm nviz oav objc ocaml offensive ofx oggvorbis openal opengl opie oscar ospfapi oss pam parse-clocks pcap pcmcia pcntl pcre pdf pdflib pearl perl pg-hier pg-intdatetime pg-vacuumdelay php physfs pic plotutils png portaudio posix postgresql ppds print pthreads python qt quicktime quotes readline real rhino rogue rplay samba sasl savage sdl servlet-2.3 servlet-2.4 session sftplogging shaper shared sharedmem sheep silc simplexml skk slp smime sndfile snmp sockets socks5 softquota sox spell ssl stencil-buffer stroke svg svga sysvipc szip t1lib tcpd tetex tga theora tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vda vhosts videos virus-scan wifi wmf wxwin wxwindows xatrix xchatdccserver xchattext xemacs xgetdefault xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zlib zvbi video_cards_savage" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
Running "ebuild /usr/portage/net-wireless/prism54/prism54-20050125.ebuild digest" seems to fix the problem. However, if I emerge sync later on, the problem reoccurs.
you should use the in-kernel driver instead of the ebuild when you have a newer 2.6-kernel, but besides that the bug is fixed.