For somereason, wpa_supplicant starts itself when I modprobe ath_pci. yzhao@fuu ~ $ ps -A | grep wpa yzhao@fuu ~ $ lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 93920 1 drm 55764 2 radeon snd_pcm_oss 41504 0 snd_mixer_oss 14080 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_seq_oss 26752 0 snd_seq_midi_event 5440 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 42000 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 6156 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_intel8x0 25372 2 snd_ac97_codec 78752 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 1792 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 68936 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 18372 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 7496 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm ntfs 84208 1 intel_agp 17756 1 agpgart 25608 2 drm,intel_agp joydev 7296 0 uhci_hcd 26320 0 ehci_hcd 24776 0 ibm_acpi 24128 0 yzhao@fuu ~ $ sudo modprobe ath_pci yzhao@fuu ~ $ ps -A | grep wpa 23106 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant yzhao@fuu ~ $ emerge -pvt madwifi-driver wpa_supplicant These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.1 -gsm +madwifi -qt +readline +ssl 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1451.20060212 -amrr -onoe 3,032 kB [1] Total size of downloads: 3,032 kB Portage overlays: [1] /usr/local/portage (I'm running a newer snapshot of madwifi-ng with renamed but unmodified ebuild) Can anyone confirm, or is my laptop haunted or something? Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distcc distlocks noclean sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://sui/portage/ http://gentoo.mirrored.ca http://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/public/gentoo/ " LANG="en_CA.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://sui/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 c++ cairo cdr cjk crypt cups curl dbus dvd dvi eds emboss encode exif expat fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint glut gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java joystick jpeg junit latex lcms libcaca libg++ libwww mad matroska mikmod mmx mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pdflib perl php png ppds python quicktime readline real recode samba sdl slang spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb utf8 vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf xine xml xml2 xosd xprint xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Ugh. Sorry, something went wrong when I filed the bug. Please reassign.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119613 ***