Bug 246986 – net-wireless/hostap-driver-0.4.9 wants CONFIG_NET_RADIO, which is no longer in kernel

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Carlos Konstanski 2008-11-15 21:24:08 UTC]

A snippet of the hostap-driver build, which shows it dying because it looks for deprecated kernel configs:

 * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...
 *   hostap-driver-0.4.9 requires support for Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions (CONFIG_NET_RADIO).
 * Please check to make sure these options are set correctly.
 * Failure to do so may cause unexpected problems.
 * Once you have satisfied these options, please try merging
 * this package again.
 * 
 * ERROR: net-wireless/hostap-driver-0.4.9 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                    ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *   hostap-driver-0.4.9.ebuild, line   58:  Called linux-mod_pkg_setup
 *             linux-mod.eclass, line  578:  Called linux-info_pkg_setup
 *            linux-info.eclass, line  717:  Called check_extra_config
 *            linux-info.eclass, line  612:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *              die "Incorrect kernel configuration options"
 *  The die message:
 *   Incorrect kernel configuration options
 * 
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/hostap-driver-0.4.9/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/hostap-driver-0.4.9/temp/die.env'.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:




Portage 2.2_rc14 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-glibc2.0
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/gentoo-lisp-overlay"
SYNC="rsync://sphinktoo.pippiandcarlos.com/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode evo fam ffmpeg firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal iconv imagemagick imap ipv6 isdnlog java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kerberos krb krb5 latex ldap libnotify libwww mad maildir midi mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl pic png postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sasl sdl session source spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode urandom usb vim vorbis win32codecs x86 xft xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fglrx vesa"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Bill Skellenger 2008-11-29 13:53:03 UTC]

Here is my story:

I had kernel 2.6.11 and hostap-driver-0.3.7 installed on a server, everything is working fine.  I upgraded the server and rebuilt 2.6.11, and found that hostap-driver-0.3.7 could not be rebuilt, I assume because it is no longer in the portage tree.  This seems a little strange, I thought that the old (working fine for me) version would be held locally on this machine but it is possible I accidentally deleted the sources for it.  (I mean, how could module-rebuild possibly work if older versions are constantly being removed?  It must be that I deleted something here.)

Anyway, now I'm six hours later and I've rebuilt the latest kernel sources, and I'm having the same problem with hostap-driver as described here.  

I found this post on the hostap mailing list in case this helps...  It will help me as I'm now using kernel 2.6.25.

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http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2007-June/015877.html

Compiling HostAP driver for 2.6.20 Kernel
Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Mon Jun 11 12:05:11 EDT 2007

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On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 03:02:15AM -0700, rdu n wrote:

>         I am trying to compile 0.4.9 hostap driver to
> enable support for firmware download to my intersil
> prism chipset. But failed in compiling, it says...
> 
> echo *** Can't build for 2.6 with a non-2.6 source!
> make: *** [2.6] Error 1

Host AP driver is now included in the kernel source tree and the
external version does not support (and is not needed anyway) the latest
2.6 kernel releases. In other words, you will need to use the version
included in the 2.6.20 kernel.

[Comment 2 Pacho Ramos 2012-02-14 11:00:19 UTC]

Maybe we should treeclean this as people needs to use kernel drivers instead of this old one :-/

[Comment 3 Pacho Ramos 2012-04-06 19:29:44 UTC]

dropped