Bug 86252 – net-wireless/rtl8180: Missing kernel configchecks

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description golloza 2005-03-22 06:00:47 UTC]

The RTL8180 depends on some kernel options the ebuild currently doesn't check for: CRYPTO, CRYPTO_ARC4 and CRC32.

The ARC4 algorithm was added to mainline with 2.6.4-rc3/2.4.26-pre2, see http://lwn.net/Articles/75117/ and http://lwn.net/Articles/80386/.

[Comment 1 golloza 2005-03-22 06:05:10 UTC]

Created attachment 54150 [details, diff]
rtl8180-0.20.2-config_check.patch

[Comment 2 golloza 2005-03-22 06:05:59 UTC]

Comment on attachment 54150 [details, diff]
rtl8180-0.20.2-config_check.patch

Adds CRYPTO, CRYPTO_ARC4, and CRC32 to CONFIG_CHECK

[Comment 3 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 13:22:57 UTC]

where do you know that from? Can I confirm that from the source? Does the driver work without WEP and the crypto-functions?

[Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2005-03-22 14:21:03 UTC]

FYI: the ipw2x00 drivers depend on the same options to work with WEP. To avoid confusion, the ipw2x00 ebuilds require these options to be enabled in the kernel at merge time.

I think it would make sense to check for these options in the rtl8180 ebuild as well.

[Comment 5 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) 2005-03-22 22:24:13 UTC]

thanks, fixed.

[Comment 6 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-03-31 06:36:01 UTC]

I didn't have crypto enabled but still the ebuild didn't give me any errors. The actual build process did give me errors. I am using 0.20.2.