On Tuesday 18 February 2003 05:34, Joseph Carter wrote: > 2. pcmcia-cs seems to lock solid every single kernel I threw at the > thing, regardless of whether or not it was actually doing anything > with PCMCIA at the time. > > Solution: Gentoo 1.4 uses pcmcia-cs 3.2.1, which is not the current > version. 3.2.3 is available but masked I guess until 1.4 is ready for > release. Lots of people report similar lockups with the drivers in > 1.4, and while I can't say it will fix everyone's problems, I know > that it has fixed mine.
actually, 3.2.3 has been in cvs for months now: http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/pcmcia-cs/ it was added back in november > 5. Replacement for the above was a Belkin F5D6130 (wth kind of model > number is that?!) which has no only SNMP configuration. The ap-utils > page says it's supported, so I emerge ap-utils on my desktop machine > and run it. This didn't work, and basically hosed the AP so that > nothing could even see it anymore. Hardware reset and settings wipe > made the Windows drivers able to see it. > > Solution: ap-utils 1.0.5 is what's in Gentoo. This version is ancient > and not useful with most newer APs. 1.3.1 is currently stable, so I > had to make an ebuild for it. Gentoo bug 15912 contains the ebuild. > Note, the Windows crap for this thing have two options for security: > none and single passwd for everything. ap-config can do better, but > after changing security settings the Belkin-provided software no > longer recognise it as a Belkin AP. How terrible! ;) ap-utils-1.3.1 was added earlier today to cvs ... http://cvs.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-wireless/ap-utils/ -mike _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
