mawifi-driver for D-Link DWL-G520 wireless card emerge error

[K-Dawg]

Hi fellow gentooers, I have a quick question for ya. I had previously had my D-Link DWL-G520 PCI wireless g card in my server but decided that the wireless signal just wasn't stable enough for me (sig drops I am guessing from my POS WRT54G linksys router, cause I have to reset the channel every day or 2 and the card immediately recognizes the AP again) so I went back to a hard wire into 10/100 NIC again like I should have stayed in the first place on a server . Anyways now I went to move this wireless card to my workstation running KDE 3.2.2 and I have emerged wireless-tools but when I go to emerge madwifi-driver it tells me it is masked to which I apply an ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge madwifi-driver command, portage starts to compile the pkg and then dies shortly thereafter w/ the following error:


!!! ERROR: net-wireless/madwifi-driver-0.1_pre20040514
failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 38, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY - --------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-net-wireless_-_madwifi-driver -0.1_pre20040514-13677.log"

open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-gentoo-r1/.tmp_version s/ath_hal.mod
open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-gentoo-r1/.tmp_version s/wlan.mod
open_wr: /usr/src/linux-2.6.3-gentoo-r1/.tmp_version s/ath_pci.mod
------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------

that is the last part of the error, can someone please help me out here or point me in the right direction. When I emerged this package on my server it went flawless.

[K-Dawg]

BUMP Come on gentoo guru's what is going on here? Could someone please assist me w/ a resolution

[UberLord]

I can't fix your error, but I can tell you that the current CVS version is miles better than the one in portage.

I suggest you get the CVS version and compile it by hand.
http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-faq.htm#get
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[K-Dawg]

Thanks for the reply UberLord, I was starting to get worried that the gentoo community was gonna leave me in the dark on this one.

Well I got the madwifi-driver emerged w/ some sandbox disabling and manipulation (FEATURES="-sandbox -userpriv") but now I am still having issues.

Still dont know what the problem is, I had no issues whatsoever the first time i emerged the madwifi-driver and it worked almost flawlessly w/ this D-Link card in another machine. Now it just keeps hoppin channels, as in I will manually set it w/ iwconfig ath0 channel 1 or 6 or 11 and the essid and it will lock on or a few second onto that frequency and then drop off. I can ping the card, it shows 1 mbps which I cant seems to set to anything else (does iwconfig ath0 rate 54M or 54MB make a difference cause I was doing the first ?. In any case for now I have unmerged these drivers and was thinkin abt goin the linux-wlan-ng way or is this a bad idea? Or will the prism54 or prism2/2.5/3 work for me (I dont believe so but hey it's worth asking since you are kinda a wireless guru ) Or should I just all in all go w/ your option and scripts?

Sorry to flood you w/ all these questions but I would really like to get this running properly again

DAMN I MISS MY ORINOCO CARD AND THE SIMPLICITY OF IT

Edit: Looks like from other research that the linux-wlan-ng is definently NOT the way to go and is not supported under 2.6 kernel series which I use

[UberLord]