Gentoo wpa_supplicant not installing...

worldgnat · 12-30-2005, 11:10 AM

Ok, so I'm on an amd turion 64 machine, trying to install my broadcom card, and ndiswrapper complains about being masked, and so does wpa_supplicant. The mask is (~amd64).What do I do? if you neeed hardware info let me know. Also, I thought broadcom wireless cards were supported in linux kernel, but I couldn't find it!?

Thanks,
-Peter

worldgnat · 12-30-2005, 03:56 PM

Never mind. Just figured out the "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS" Variable. For those new Gentoo-ers looking for the answer, try

#ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge wpa_supplicant ndiswrapper

Basically Gentoo explains keywords as follows:
All files in the portage database have various labels:

-arch Architecture not supported
~arch Package for arch is in testing
arch Package is supported for arch

arch being the architecture such as x86, x86_64, sparc, sparc64 so on and so forth. Hope it helps.

-Peter

mentallysilent · 12-30-2005, 05:07 PM

Broadcom cards are not supported by the kernel, but worry not, ndiswrapper does work under Gentoo 64 bit...My laptop's wireless works flawlessly and its an AMD Athlon 64 3000. Masked packages in portage usually mean the package hasn't been tested for stability as of yet so it is masked. For unmasking try:

echo "ndiswrapper" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "wpa_supplicant" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

The method suggested by the previous post is deprecated.