On Friday 17 February 2006 05:17, Rob Oravec wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: > > I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP > > Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just > > fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but > > the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are > > totally up to date. I'm using madwifi. Any suggestions? > > > > - Grant > > Hi Grant, > > Firstly have you got wireless extensions enabled in the kernel? > -CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y > I believe that is a requirement. > > Is the madwifi-driver installed and the module loaded? > -modprobe ath_pci > > If it can't find the module emerge the madwifi-driver package > -emerge madwifi-driver > or alternatively try the madwifi-ng code at http://madwifi.org > Both methods should give you a "ath0" interface. > > Are you getting any error messages?, when you run "iwconfig" does it > show wireless related settings on the relevant interface? > > Hope this helps. > Let us know, > > Rob
You also need to emerge madwifi-tools, and you need ath_hal loaded too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
