On Friday, May 5 2006 22:14, William Kenworthy wrote: > I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. > Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in > portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? > > BillK > > -- > William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Home!
I recommend the in-kernel drivers, simply because they are much more convenient and easier to get working. Just configure it like any other wireless device, there is a section in the handbook on wireless networking iirc. Otherwise there is plenty of information in /etc/conf.d/net.example and /etc/conf.d/wireless.example. Also, you'll need to emerge ipw2200-firmware regardless of whether you use the in-kernel or external driver, firmware-2.4 is needed for the in-kernel driver and firmware-3.0 is needed for the external driver, they are slotted so both firmwares can coexist nicely. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
