Bug 76831

Summary:	Linuxant Driverloader 2.23 now supports Broadcom chipsets on x86-64 linux.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael E. Adams <meadams>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Mobile Herd (OBSOLETE) <mobile+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael E. Adams 2005-01-05 16:33:21 UTC

Linuxant Driverloader 2.23 now supports 802.11b/g on Broadcom chipsets within x86-64 linux. I am running it with Gentoo x86-64 2004.3-r1 on a Compaq Presario R3000. Could Gentoo provide an ebuild supporting this driver? Linuxant has an installer program that should be run with the --tty option to run in text mode. A single MAC address license costs $20.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download dldrinstall.run
2. Gunzip and untar
3. As root, sh dldrinstall.run
4. Follow instruction.
5. Reboot and configure hardware (I use iwconfig.

Actual Results:  
Working 802.11g!



emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r12 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r12 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X acpi alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr esd f77 fam
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile imlib
ipv6 jack java jp2 jpeg ldap lzw lzw-tiff mozilla multilib ncurses nls opengl
oss pam perl png ppds python qt readline ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales xml xml2 xmms xpm xrandr xv zlib"

Comment 1 Stefan Schweizer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-06 08:55:47 UTC

Could you please test, bump(rename), help with the ebuild in that bug?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53741 ***