From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDuv0-0003rA-Ac for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:34:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5662E042D; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F0D0E042D for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 06:34:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1803819gxk.10 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:34:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XJgJv74IK8NBmCqgs5N3PyXsGfO8BfBH7fWKQEO0/iE=; b=egpd8PgR9qS7dDs9y8JZluGbNAnLvqOhRsiYo1CC6/HuDL8J3sv/CJKm5fM05a0wrf RArqkZB08cl0XgWQHkRC0Wwh4dhvbVMtaZjOHWBsn5RNAG/w3Ja/syAAbkbz8qlld1J9 GDm6mFM7iLnff8ljYc+2vCNSIMMXBSrsFNfR0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UO53dTZDqP+3BJ4dqIe5bJOvIhjela63uOxOUhgj/UebZjkIdiPf+qkrYBtwzYP6jE 40oeEzTyzrrpKl1+DGGJW7v8ZRylWy8pU7Asy8oaOwbReESfhu2XAdXgvI+H+tks6Thu 536GH3XQnu1FyrNrMJ9TEsBbsRFNex5SvUYgw= Received: by 10.90.99.3 with SMTP id w3mr4443785agb.106.1244529281831; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.49.63.185? (r63h185.dixie-net.com [64.49.63.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm8982476agd.46.2009.06.08.23.33.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A2E023F.4020806@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:33:35 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros kernel driver and my wireless access point setup References: <000606ca6620ef53cdcd6e935ccf6c4b.squirrel@jasoncarson.ca> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4a60c2b5-3dd3-4cf7-ae72-3c38a17b905a X-Archives-Hash: cb89511ab343e71f058f2e9f54fe29ef Jason Carson wrote: > Hey all, > > I think I might know the problem. After doing some reading apparently many > distrutions, including Gentoo, don't ship hostapd with support for the > nl80211 driver. I checked the Gentoo tarball and this is the case. I tried > editing the defconfig file in hostapd.tar.gz (enabling > CONFIG_DRIVER_NL80211=y)but when I opened the tarball, edited it, and > created a new tarball then tried to emerge it it gave me this... > > > penguin distfiles # emerge hostapd > Calculating dependencies... done! > > >>>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>>> > > >>>> Emerging (1 of 1) net-wireless/hostapd-0.6.9 >>>> > Refetching... File renamed to > '/usr/portage/distfiles/hostapd-0.6.9.tar.gz._checksum_failure_.70f9W1' > > > ...and then wanted to download hostapd again. > > Anyone know how I edit the source of the hostapd tarball so it will work? > > What it is doing is correct. The package has been changed and portage doesn't know if you did it or some random hacker. That said, man ebuild and check out the manifest section. I have never done this but maybe it will make sense to you. Also, I think emerge used to have the --digest option. Basically it tells emerge to skip checking the digest. I didn't see it in the man page so it may not be there anymore. Dale :-) :-)