hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo installation process.
I got a relatively new laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Y400. The Gentoo iso I choose is: admincd-amd64-20130620.iso, from: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20130620/hardened/ After I made the LiveUSB, disabling the UEFI boot, I finally boot into the Gentoo kernel. But I could not connect to the network. Using the `ifconfig -a` command, I can only see the loopback interface: lo. Using the `lspci` command, I can see the two network adapters: (1) the Ethernet adapter Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (2) the wireless adapter Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN (The two network adapters both work well under Windows 8.) After several times of STFW, I can confirm it's a network adapter driver support issue: lacks of coresponding network adapter drivers. For the AR8161 network adapter, it requires the alx kernal module: alx.ko. Previously, I thought I could at least compile this driver by myself, but soon I found it lacks of build-essential packages, too. :-( For the wireless network adapter, I can find iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode(coresponding to Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 BGN adapter) under /lib/firmware, I tried the `modprobe iwlwifi` command, still doesn't work. Weird. Uh... I don't know what to do next to continue the installation. Any suggestion or advice is appreciated. PS. several links which I found useful: http://askubuntu.com/questions/165192/how-do-i-install-drivers-for-the-atheros-ar8161-ethernet-controller http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2089512 http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi
