> Jason Carson wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently >> many >> distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the >> nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I >> tried >> editing the defconfig file in hostapd.tar.gz (enabling >> CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y)but when I opened the tarball, edited it, and >> created a new tarball then tried to emerge it it gave me this... >> >> >> penguin distfiles # emerge hostapd >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> >> >>>>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>>>> >> >> >>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/hostapd-0.6.9 >>>>> >> Refetching... File renamed to >> '/usr/portage/distfiles/hostapd-0.6.9.tar.gz._checksum_failure_.70f9W1' >> >> >> ...and then wanted to download hostapd again. >> >> Anyone know how I edit the source of the hostapd tarball so it will >> work? >> >> > > What it is doing is correct. The package has been changed and portage > doesn't know if you did it or some random hacker. That said, man ebuild > and check out the manifest section. I have never done this but maybe it > will make sense to you. > > Also, I think emerge used to have the --digest option. Basically it > tells emerge to skip checking the digest. I didn't see it in the man > page so it may not be there anymore. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > Hmmmm, I tried emerging hostapd normally and I noticed this...
* Enabling Wi-Fi Protected Setup support * Enabling drivers: * HostAP driver enabled * Wired driver enabled * Prism54 driver enabled * Madwifi driver enabled * nl80211 driver enabled ...which says that nl80211 is enabled, yet the defconfig file in the tar ball shows this line commented out so I am confused as to how I fix my problem... #CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y
