On Saturday 20 January 2007 19:58, »Q« wrote:
> This affects suspend2-sources users (and maybe others) who have been
> using the ipw2200 ebuild in portage rather than the in-kernel ipw2200
> support.  It confused me pretty badly yesterday, so I thought I'd post
> in case it can help someone.
>
> The ipw2200 ebuild is now masked, pending removal from portage (see
> current package.mask).  So it's probably time to migrate to using the
> kernel's ipw2200 support.  A problem arises because (AIUI) installing
> the ipw2200 ebuild removes what's needed in suspend2-sources
> to compile the kernel with its own ipw2200 support.  Or maybe the
> removal was done manually;  ISTR having to remove some files after
> being prompted by the ebuild.  Anyway, trying to compile the kernel
> after configuring for ipw2200 support results in failure.
>
> The fix is to unmerge ipw2200 and ieee80211, then emerge
> suspend2-sources again before reconfiguring and recompiling.
>
> Thanks to Phil for filing a bug (invalid) and to Alon Bar-Lev for
> pointing toward the cause of the problem.
> <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162856>

This issue is specific to neither suspend2-sources nor ipw2200. You hit the 
same issue with any other kernel if you emerge ieee80211. From the ieee80211 
ebuild:

    eerror "Your kernel source contains an incompatible version of the"
    eerror "ieee80211 subsystem, which needs to be removed before"
    eerror "${P} can be installed. This can be accomplished by running:"
    eerror
    eerror "  # /bin/sh ${FILESDIR}/remove-old ${KV_DIR}"
    if [ "${KV_DIR}" != "${KV_OUT_DIR}" ]; then
         eerror "  # /bin/sh ${FILESDIR}/remove-old ${KV_OUT_DIR}"
    fi
    eerror
    eerror "Please note that this will make it impossible to use some of the"
    eerror "in-kernel IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN drivers (eg. orinoco)."

You ran the script and you were warned. The ieee80211 ebuild is depended upon 
by four external, wireless net drivers: ipw{2100,2200,3945} and rt2x00.

-- 
Bo Andresen

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