Summary: | net-wireless/madwifi-ng-0.9.4.4133.20100621 fails to configure because of missing CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT kernel option | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Juergen Rose <rose> |
Component: | [OLD] Unspecified | Assignee: | Steev Klimaszewski (RETIRED) <steev> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | pva, xo0ox |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Juergen Rose
2010-08-15 08:48:44 UTC
Juerge it's not in .config because you have not enabled any wireless driver that will select it. But option is still there. just enable something like "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards" (CONFIG_AIRO or CONFIG_IPW2100 as eerror message suggests) and you'll find CONFIG_WIRELESS=y inside .config. I have a Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC. Now I am using the ath5k driver for WLAN communication. In the past I used the madwifi-ng. If I activate all ATH specific options, CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT is not set: root@thinkpad:/usr/src/linux(31)# grep -i ath .config # CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set CONFIG_BT_ATH3K=m CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug" # CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH is not set # CONFIG_DM_MULTIPATH is not set CONFIG_ATH_COMMON=m # CONFIG_ATH_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_ATH5K=m # CONFIG_ATH5K_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_ATH9K_HW=m CONFIG_ATH9K_COMMON=m CONFIG_ATH9K=m # CONFIG_ATH9K_DEBUGFS is not set CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC=m # CONFIG_ATH9K_HTC_DEBUGFS is not set root@thinkpad:/usr/src/linux(32)# grep CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT .config CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS=y If I activate CONFIG_IPW2100 I get also the CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT option. But does it make sense, to activate the CONFIG_IPW2100 if I want to get madwifi_ng for an atheros card? (In reply to comment #2) > If I activate CONFIG_IPW2100 I get also the CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT option. > But does it make sense, to activate the CONFIG_IPW2100 if I want to get > madwifi_ng for an atheros card? Yup, there is no other way: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/madwifi-devel/2010/1/11/6697083 |