The package fsam7400 is a bit outdated and no more works with kernel 2.6.23 if you do not have the CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE kernel configuration parameter active. That parameter cannot be enabled through menuconfig, so I could get it enabled by enabling support of the Wistron Buttons module (which does not work, by the way). In this post http://www.zwobbl.de/2007/11/05/fsam7400-rfsam-are-obsolete/ the author of fsam7400 says that fsam7400 is obsolete. Many laptop users do need fsam7400 to manually enable their wireless network card; I just posted this bug report for other users that might find problems with module fsam7400 and recent kernels
Created attachment 138265 [details, diff] patch to net-wireless/fsam7400-0.5.1 With this patch the make process fails if /proc/config.gz does not contain CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE=y
I have found that the radio killswitch can be used through the sysfs facility created by the ipw2100 driver. I have put online a script here too: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Maxdata_Pro_7000DX/rfkillsw fsam7400 is no more really important for my type of hardware, although the fact that the package should be patched remains.
Please ignore comment #2, fsam7400 is still necessary to toggle the HW killswitch :(
Created attachment 167525 [details] updated ebuild which checks for CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE and patches Makefile for wrong CFLAGS usage (replacing with EXTRA_FLAGS)
Created attachment 167527 [details, diff] the patch referenced by the ebuild (already hosted on external website)
Please update the ebuild and eventually move the patch to a proper place (FILESDIR?) as per your guidelines. The package does not work in its current status, the new ebuild and patch are needed
Probably time to treeclean as it's still broken and kernel-3.6 should replace it
Created attachment 329830 [details] fsam7400 version 0.5.4 (forked by legolas558), compiling & working with linux 3.6.6 I am attaching the current compiling & working version of fsam7400, 0.5.4, here for reference and for anybody to eventually pick it up. Unfortunately I do not use Gentoo anymore, otherwise I would mantain the ebuild. I still have the hardware that uses fsam7400
dropped
