On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: [SNIP] > I isolated my problem to this: > > emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because it > says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in either > module or enabled. It needs it disabled. > > I tried to use menuconfig and disable it, however, the only way I can do > that is by literally disabling ALL networking - drivers and all. > > Kernel is kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r8. [SNIP] > If anyone knows a better/easier way, please help! [SNIP]
As of kernel 2.6.17 ipw2100 has been included in the kernel. Hence you shouldn't install either of net-wireless/ieee80211 or net-wireless/ipw2100. You still need to have net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware emerged though. I believe these are the kernel options you need (it works for me): $ zgrep IPW2100\\\|IEEE80211 /proc/config.gz CONFIG_IEEE80211=m # CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=m CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=m CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=m # CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC is not set CONFIG_IPW2100=m # CONFIG_IPW2100_MONITOR is not set # CONFIG_IPW2100_DEBUG is not set -- Bo Andresen
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