Hi,
if you act so I strongly recommend not to use Gentoo.
I did this too a while ago and got unsolveable problems building
everything depending on modules.
For instance:
Cisco VPN couldn't be loaded due to an invalid kernel version.
ipw2200 didnt load
.. wireless tools failed
.. wpa_supplicant failed
ndiswrapper didn't load
.. hotplug started with wrong directory information
.. the driver didn't get it's firmware
.. wireless tools failed
.. wpa_supplicant failed
Dunno why Gentoo needs to ebuild the kernel to make portage know where
the kernel sources are and where to store modules to during
modules_install. Every other distribution uses ``uname'' for this.
BTW. This is (at the moment) the only thing annoying me with Gentoo. I
decided to emerge development_sources (which is a vanilly kernel) and
going with this quite happy.
Regards
Frank
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:07 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
> > That is what homebrew-sources is for. It's a dummy ebuild that provides
> > all necessary virtuals to simulate gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.99.
>
> Great! As I mentioned at the end of my reply, it was possible that I was
> missing your point and apparently I was.
>
> Thanks for this pointer; I'm going to give it a whirl...
>
> Dave
>
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