Bug 293140 – Addition of compat-wireless stable branch

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 03:57:18 UTC]

compat-wireless is wifi drivers backported from the lastest stable[pre-patch] to the kernel for use with older kernels >=2.6.27

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge compat-wireless
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
don't have that ebuild

Expected Results:  
add the ebuild and patches attached to this ticket :-)

[Comment 1 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 03:58:08 UTC]

Created attachment 210188 [details]
main ebuild

[Comment 2 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 03:59:01 UTC]

Created attachment 210190 [details]
Patch to fix the makefile

[Comment 3 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 04:00:03 UTC]

Created attachment 210192 [details]
patche for injection use flag to fix mac80211

[Comment 4 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 04:00:34 UTC]

Created attachment 210194 [details]
patch for injection use flag to fix zd1211

[Comment 5 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 04:01:09 UTC]

Created attachment 210195 [details]
patch for injection use flag to fix fragmentation

[Comment 6 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 04:01:42 UTC]

Created attachment 210196 [details]
patch for injection use flag to fix frequency settings

[Comment 7 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 05:44:03 UTC]

Created attachment 210197 [details]
main ebuild after round 1 of sunrise recommendations

[Comment 8 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2009-11-14 21:25:21 UTC]

Created attachment 210273 [details]
main ebuild after round 2 of recommendations

[Comment 9 Rick Farina (Zero_Chaos) 2012-04-16 16:00:51 UTC]

This is a really old bug and is already added to the pentoo overlay for some time.  Even the gentoo wiki is pointing people to the pentoo overlay for this, so please note this bug is not up to date at all but the pentoo overlay has up to date ebuilds for users who desire them.