I have been pulling my hair out for a while after updating my kernel, I couldn't get my wlan0 wireless PCMCIA card to work again. I kept re-emerging the "net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng" but was never getting the module.
daevid ~ # emerge -av net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1_pre23 -build -pcmcia -usb 437 kB Total size of downloads: 437 kB Then after staring at the ebuild line I realized much to my astonishment that it is set to "-pcmcia". WTF?! This seems to me absurd. 90% of the wireless cards out there are PCMCIA. So I had to edit my /etc/portage/package.use file and add 'pcmcia' to it for this ebuild. I guess I never noticed or even considered the possibility that it would default to not building PCMCIA. I would like to request that pcmcia be on by default for this ebuild. This would also go for "net-wireless/hostap-driver". "net-wireless/madwifi-driver" doesn't have this problem. It just works. Is there some logic or reason behind them being defaulted to off for these that I'm just not seeing? I've added it as http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100835 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
