On Friday, 22. December. 2006 16:24, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 00:42 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: > > net-wireless/ipw2100 and net-wireless/ipw2200 are both kernel drivers > > built as an external package through portage. The codebase currently in > > portage is the same that is present in any up-to-date kernel tarball > > (2.6.x). > > Just curious, but what about 2.4 kernel users? As I understand it, the > 2.4 gentoo-sources seems to be the only currently supported 2.4 kernel > for x86, so do these drivers even work there? If not, it makes the > point moot, but if this is the only way for 2.4-based Gentoo users to > use their hardware, it might be a bad idea to remove them just yet.
Nope, the external packages currently present in portage don't support linux-2.4. -- Christian Heim <phreak at gentoo.org> GPG key ID: 9A9F68E6 Fingerprint: AEC4 87B8 32B8 4922 B3A9 DF79 CAE3 556F 9A9F 68E6 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
