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

[Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@free.fr>]

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
>>
> 
> You can dig bugzilla and find two entries too :
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176148
> 	=> an ebuild from the git repository by Jakub Moc (you can trust
> 	 him ;-))
> 

Actually this one seems outdated too because it depends on some ebuilds
building modules that have been merged into 2.6.22.

Jakub please correct me if I'm wrong.
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