* Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up
[not found] ` <200701302134.31581.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
@ 2007-02-01 8:40 99% ` James Ausmus
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From: James Ausmus @ 2007-02-01 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 1/30/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 23:30, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 29 January 2007 23:06, James Ausmus wrote:
>
> > > So - possible solutions:
> > > 1. Figure out the date/time of the emerge of the *successful*
> > > rt2x00-9999 package using genlop, then check out the CVS source tree
> > > as of that date, and build/install by hand
>
> Where do I find this? I've had a look at the website and all I can see is the
> daily builds.
>
> > > 2. Work with the rt2x00 developers to figure out the problem and get
> > > it corrected in the current version
> > > 3. Try what I'm currently doing with my rt2500 card (using the
> > > rt2x00-999 package compiled from CVS on Wed Jan 3 20:39:53 2007,
> > > according to genlop) - manually set the ESSID, AP, and encryption
> > > settings on the card, then issue a /etc/init.d/net.ra0 start/restart
> > > command.
> >
> > When you say configure it on the card do you mean in the /etc/conf.d/net
> > file?
> >
> > > BTW - If you do figure out the date/time of the successful CVS
> > > package, let me know, and I'll try that one on my laptop, see if it
> > > fixes my problems. :)
> >
> > These two worked fine for my USB adaptor:
> >
> > Sat Dec 9 08:54:56 2006 >>> net-wireless/rt2x00-9999
> > Wed Dec 27 17:34:33 2006 >>> net-wireless/rt2x00-9999
> >
> > How could I get portage to emerge a particular CVS version?
>
> I found the answer and it is using this very package as an example!
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/Skipping_fetch_for_CVS_packages
>
> However, still don't know where to find older tarballs.
You probably won't be able to find a tarball - there *should* be some
way to check out the source tree directly from CVS as of the date that
you are interested in - I'm not a CVS user directly, myself, so I
don't know what those commands would be off the top of my head - maybe
some CVS guru (or at least casual user!) could chime in here?
-James
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
>
>
>
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