Emerging ipw2200 doesn't pull through the required ieee80211 kernel modules since they have been split into their own ebuild. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sync 2. emerge ipw2200 3. Actual Results: A series of warnings during the emerge are produces. Modprobing ipw2200 fails due to unresolved symbols. ---- emerge warnings ---- WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_get_crypto_ops WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_set_encode WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_encode WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_txb_free WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_crypt_delayed_deinit WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_wx_get_scan WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_freq_to_channel WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_rx WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_channel_to_index WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_rx_mgt WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_get_geo WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol free_ieee80211 WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol ieee80211_is_valid_channel WARNING: //lib/modules/2.6.12-gentoo-r10/net/wireless/ipw2200.ko needs unknown symbol alloc_ieee80211 ---- done ---- Expected Results: ipw2200 ebuild should have ieee80211 as a dependency emerging ieee80211 manually, before ipw2200 seems to work
(In reply to comment #0) > Expected Results: > ipw2200 ebuild should have ieee80211 as a dependency Then maybe have a look at the ebuild before filing a bug. Also note that you need to re-emerge ieee80211 when upgrading your kernel.