I had to go manual on this following the hint given here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4158112.html#4158112

My wireless LAN connection is now up and working using WPA2. :D
Could you post your config files ? (Not that I'm interested in your secret keys :) )
Have you tried NetworkManager ...

I had to go manual on this following the hint given here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-41 ... ml#4158112

My wireless LAN connection is now up and working using WPA2.

Can you get successful WPA2 secured connections with this?

I found the same link.

For your information: here's my ebuild
# cat /usr/local/portage/net-wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00-9999.ebuild

...snipped code....

and this is the patch (to be put in the files-dir)
# cat /usr/local/portage/net-wireless/rt2x00/files/rt2x00mac-parameter-overload.patch
...snipped ...

Amarok compiles fine after re-emerging tunepimp.

Its an old post but it still holds true. On my x86 system running KDE, Azureus was making CPU utilization hit 100%. Unmerged dev-java/systray4j and it is now down to 3-4%.

I user Mr. Postman to get emails from my Yahoo, Hotmaill and local ISP account into Thunderbird. It supports Gmail too but I download it directly into TB.

It is Java based so it works in both Windows and Linux. Great solution if you have a dual boot machine with Thunderbird mail store shared in ...

I had the same problem. Fortunately, I had space on the harddisk to create another partition. I made a new partition and moved my "distfiles" subdirectory to that new partition. Note that you have to specify new path for distfiles directory in your /etc/make.conf in order for portage to find those ...

Thanks Tom
Your solution definately helped me as I was facing exactly the same problem and your proposed solution worked fine for me as well.
Cheers
Mazhar