Bug 36326

Summary:	Kill net-wireless/hostap
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) <karltk>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Peter Johanson (RETIRED) <latexer>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pau
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	41141

Description Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-12-22 17:07:55 UTC

These are old and seem only to cause confusion. Is there any hardware that only works with these and not newer ones? I suggest you remove it, or make it a "top level" package, that depends hostap-driver and hostap-utils.

Either that, or make a note during installation that more recent drivers are available as hostap-driver.

At least I was confused;)

Comment 1 Pau Oliva 2003-12-30 17:06:25 UTC

Also, please note that the new hostap-driver ebuild should be fixed:

- It depends on pcmcia-cs package even if you have pcmcia support in your kernel
- It doesn't work with 2.6 kernels

Comment 2 Conrad Hoffmann 2004-01-27 15:23:14 UTC

i think the ebuild needs to determine if a 2.6 kernel is used and call "make 2.6" in that case, the sources do compile ok this way...

Comment 3 Abri le Roux 2004-02-22 06:16:48 UTC

I would agree, the net-wireless/hostap ebuild definitely causes confusion.

Comment 4 Henrik Brix Andersen 2004-09-14 09:45:10 UTC

net-wireless/hostap was removed from portage. Closing as FIXED.