From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:18:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050731001835.532b207a@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507302034.j6UKYCG8013070@robin.gentoo.org>
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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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-30 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-30 20:34 [gentoo-user] REQ: net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng default to +pcmcia Daevid Vincent
2005-07-30 22:11 ` Stroller
2005-07-30 23:18 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-07-31 11:23 ` Richard Fish
2005-08-01 22:38 ` Daevid Vincent
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