can't emerge ipw2200 ieee80211

[queen]

I am trying to emerge ipw2200 ieee80211 and i get this mistake:

* Determining the location of the kernel source code
* Found kernel source directory:
* /usr/src/linux
* Found sources for kernel version:
* 2.6.11-gentoo-r11
* Checking for suitable kernel configuration options:
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking ieee80211-1.1.6.tgz to /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work
>>> Source unpacked.
* Preparing ieee80211 module
Checking in /usr/src/linux/ for ieee80211 components...

make -C /usr/src/linux M=/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6 MODVERDIR=/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11'
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_module.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.o
CC [M] /var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_rx.o
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:193: error: parse error before "gfp_mask"
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:194: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c: In function `ieee80211_alloc_txb':
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:197: error: `nr_frags' undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:197: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:197: error: for each function it appears in.)
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:198: error: `gfp_mask' undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.c:204: error: `txb_size' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6/ieee80211_tx.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/ieee80211-1.1.6/work/ieee80211-1.1.6] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

!!! ERROR: net-wireless/ieee80211-1.1.6 failed.
!!! Function linux-mod_src_compile, Line 505, Exitcode 2
!!! Unable to make KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux all.
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.


I successfully managed to emerge the latest wireless-tools and ipw2200-firmware. My udev is

sys-fs/udev
Latest version available: 070-r1
Latest version installed: 070-r1

uname -a
Linux carin 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 #1 SMP Sun Nov 27 02:57:31 IST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


What can i do.

[nlindblad]

You might wanna try using a newer version of the gentoo patched kernel, latest stable in portage is: 2.6.14-r2
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[queen]

I thought to migrate to a newer version of kernel. Lets hope things will be better.

[nlindblad]

[queen]

[nlindblad]

[BrummieJim]

The in-kernel ipw2200 support is dire, if you look at the forum there are lots of people who have never got it to work. This is valid up to 2.6.15, so recently.

[lefou]

The only solution for my laptop (IBM ThinkPad R50) was to disable ipwXXXX and ieee80211 Support in kernel (2.6.15) and then emerge the latest packages. But with this configuration, everything works fine, including WPA2 encryption.

When you go this way, you have to delete some files in your kernel tree (the ieee80211 package describes how to do this while merging) and have also disable some other kernel drivers e.g. orinoco, that depend on in-kernel ieee80211 support.

[XmN]

I too have my ipw2200 working through the packages and NOT in kernel :p
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[Ainvar]

I have a dell precision workstation m70 laptop.

I am using the 2.6.15 genkernel without ipw2200 or ieee80211 modules unselected.
I have emerged ipw2200, ipw2200-firmware, ieee80211, and wpa_supplicant (I have also tried wireless-tools also.)

I have a Cisco Aironet 340 AP with wep 128bit setup. I am not able to get an IP when running Gentoo, I am however able to get it working out of the box in Ubuntu so I know it works on this laptop. I also know it works for others on the forum. Here is my config information.

/etc/conf.d/net
# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
iface_eth0="dhcp"
dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10 -N -h ${HOSTNAME}"


modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa_supplicant_eth1="-Dwext"
wpa_timeout_eth1=10
config_eth1=( "dhcp" )

/etc/wpa_supplicant

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
#driver_param=wext

network={
ssid="NEXUS"
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0="long wep key in hex mode"
wep_tx_keyidx=0
priority=0
# auth_alg=SHARED
}