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
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
