Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 and the rt2500/rt2x00 wireless drivers

[Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@free.fr>]

Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote:
> 
> Kernels before 2.6.22 could be configured with "CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y"
> which would allow the rt2500 legacy driver for the Ralink wireless
> chipset to compile. I've had this combination working now for over a year.
> 
> Starting with kernel 2.6.22, NET_RADIO is apparently no longer a
> configuration parameter, so I can't compile the rt2500 legacy driver,
> nor can I compile the newer rt2x00 driver which also depends on NET_RADIO.
> 
> Has anyone gotten a rt2500/rtx00 driver to compile with 2.6.22? What
> patches are needed? Is there a HOWTO somewhere? (The Gentoo Wiki
> articles "rt2500 on AMD64" and "rt2x00" don't seem to address my
> issue. In any case, neither the latest CVS of rt2500 (2007051606) nor
> the latest ebuild (net-wireless/rt2500-1.1.0_pre2007020911) compile
> with KERNDIR=/usr/src/linux-.6.22-gentoo-r1. The latest ebuild
> compiled just fine with kernels before 2.6.22.)
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> 
> --- Vladimir
> 


Hi,

the rt2x00 ebuild in portage is out-dated.

The rt2x00 project has migrated to git for quite a while. They now
provide nightly tarballs for the part related to the rt2x00 modules
(without which you have to import the entire git tree to build the drivers).

I've made an ebuild using this nightly tarball. You can find it attached.

I've been using it for over a week and it works.

I guess gentoo wireless guys are updating the official ebuild the same way.
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