From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HBfeu-00089T-KP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:11:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0TNAQ1A004313; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:10:26 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.242]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0TN6JL8031918 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:06:19 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so603468ana for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:06:19 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Kxrf6AQS1lWaQBL2UP6pVPCCcjE23ZL1RHuoNu6qaPNboiC4Yc3fzEFRtMBRiPYxAOYdwonGOY8DH4KOUdeoIEbYGwbqqdljSmdtAZS5Wej1HddPjiqmmY7+dNJn5xZCwno+hmSUa34BQLmAbIe3YSFlXWA3KANX30HWQw+MKW4= Received: by 10.78.157.8 with SMTP id f8mr4467583hue.1170111977795; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.20.7 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:06:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:06:17 -0800 From: "James Ausmus" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi adaptor playing up In-Reply-To: <200701292044.02582.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200701292044.02582.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 73ab658f-7750-4d44-9d21-7693c9f053f1 X-Archives-Hash: 96bf2ce12a076bc5084cef93d7eb1b79 On 1/29/07, Mick wrote: > My only consolation is that this fault is not intermittent. :-( > > Here's what happened. I emerged a different (to my tried & tested rt2x00-9999 > wireless driver). Then I uninstalled rt2x00-9999, but I couldn't get the new > driver to work. So, I unmerged it, remerged rt2x00-9999 (this is a CVS > package) Bingo. :) Since this is a CVS package, the version that you just now installed is different than the one that you did have installed - CVS packages go out to the live development tree, pull the latest and greatest version of the development source code (never, ever, ever guaranteed to work), and use that. 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 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. 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. :) HTH -James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list