Rodolphe Rocca wrote:
> 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.
> 

With the ebuild attached it's better ;-)