RE: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
All I know is that without the USE="pcmcia" the little card that I shove in the side of my notebook didn't get a module installed... ;-) > -Original Message- > From: Richard Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 4:24 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng > default to +pcmcia > > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > >Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my > astonishment > >that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. > 90% of the > >wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my > > > > > > I think you have gotten 16-bit legacy PCMCIA and 32-bit Cardbus > confused. For laptop wireless cards, all of the cards sold > today, and I > would guess that 99% of all cards _in use_, are 32-bit > cardbus, which do > not require pcmcia-cs or the pcmcia tools. > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
Daevid Vincent wrote: Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my I think you have gotten 16-bit legacy PCMCIA and 32-bit Cardbus confused. For laptop wireless cards, all of the cards sold today, and I would guess that 99% of all cards _in use_, are 32-bit cardbus, which do not require pcmcia-cs or the pcmcia tools. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:34:31 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > [ebuild N] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23 -build -pcmcia > -usb 437 kB > Total size of downloads: 437 kB > > Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment > that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the > wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. 90% of the wireless cards out there don't need wlan-ng. For example, the prism2 PCMCIA cards are supported in the kernel but the prism2 USB ones are not. I suppose the moral is, never trust the defaults, especially as they are global, not per ebuild. If your computer has a PCMCIA slot, set the pcmcia USE flag in make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick You couldn't get a job as a firing squad target. pgplJlQ3OMJIv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
On Jul 30, 2005, at 9:34 pm, Daevid Vincent wrote: I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept re-emerging the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module. ... Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. As a "specialist purveyor of guaranteed Linux-compatible wireless cards" the figure of 90% seems to me slightly excessive. I sell two types of Belkin card, both using the Ralink chipset (`emerge rt25000`) and both at the same price - over the past couple of months 40% of my orders have been for the PCMCIA (in fact Cardbus) model, 60% for the PCI model. If I were to include sales of Prism54 cards (more expensive, but suitable for use in master mode for wireless accesspoints, basestations & routers) then the figures for PCI cards would be higher, but I feel the scarcity of these cards may be to blame for that figure, rather than the distribution of wireless laptops to wirelessly-networked desktop PCs. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept re-emerging the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module. daevid ~ # emerge -av net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23 -build -pcmcia -usb 437 kB Total size of downloads: 437 kB Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my /etc/portage/package.use file and add 'pcmcia' to it for this ebuild. I guess I never noticed or even considered the possibility that it would default to not building PCMCIA. I would like to request that pcmcia be on by default for this ebuild. This would also go for "net-wireless/hostap-driver". "net-wireless/madwifi-driver" doesn't have this problem. It just works. Is there some logic or reason behind them being defaulted to off for these that I'm just not seeing? I've added it as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100835 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
