On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: > [SNIP] > > > I isolated my problem to this: > > > > emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because > > it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in > > either module or enabled. It needs it disabled. > > > > I tried to use menuconfig and disable it, however, the only way I > > can do that is by literally disabling ALL networking - drivers and > > all. > > > > Kernel is kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r8. > > [SNIP] > > > If anyone knows a better/easier way, please help! > > [SNIP] > > As of kernel 2.6.17 ipw2100 has been included in the kernel. Hence > you shouldn't install either of net-wireless/ieee80211 or > net-wireless/ipw2100. You still need to have > net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware emerged though. I believe these are the > kernel options you need (it works for me): > > $ zgrep IPW2100\\\|IEEE80211 /proc/config.gz > CONFIG_IEEE80211=m > # CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set > CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=m > CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=m > CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=m > # CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC is not set > CONFIG_IPW2100=m > # CONFIG_IPW2100_MONITOR is not set > # CONFIG_IPW2100_DEBUG is not set
The curious thing is that the firmware is installed. I'm trying those exact configuration settings now. I hope that works, otherwise I'm really in for quite a mess! Is it at all possible that the driver is installed and working, and that I don't have whatever it takes to activate and use it? For my wired ethernet card, there's a thing called net.eth0 and all that rot. When I get the wireless driver working, how will I create net.wlan0 or net.eth1 or whatever it is? I've not no experience there, and I've been searching rather diligently for a how-to or instruction set to help me with that. I find it hard to think that something like that will generate itself ex nihlo, to say the least : ) -- http://lordsauronthegreat.googlepages.com/
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