> I would really suggest installing the ipw2200 drivers separately from > the kernel, i.e. emerge net-wireless/ipw2200. To do so you should > reconfigure your kernel so that it has basic Wireless Lan support, but > with ieee80211 and ipw2200 turned off. The ipw2200 ebuild would bring > in an outside copy of ieee80211, follow the instructions that come up > at the emerge to remove the in-kernel source of ieee80211 completely. > And you should also be able to use the 3.0 firmware. > > I've used the drivers from outside of the kernel since version 0.6 and > never had any problem.
I did as you suggested and then ran # /bin/sh /usr/portage/net-wireless/ieee80211/files/remove-old /usr/src/linux Had to reboot and I was in business. Thanks, Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
