1.  You might want to try modprobe prism2_pci and see if it loads it.  Gentoo 
makes a best guess. Even on my desktop with no wireless I get the aironet4500 
modules.


> Hi,
>
> I just started installing gentoo on my x86 box.
>
> I have two questions/problems:
> -----------------------------
>
> 1. I have a wireless network card. I did not find
> the driver (prism2_pci) in the list of supported
> driver.
>
> Instead gentoo loaded the modules "aironet4500-proc"
> and "aironet4500-core". Then when I do ifconfig -a
> I get the following interfaces:
>
> dummy: (dummy)
> lo0: (loopback)
> sit0: (seems to be for IPv6) ???
>
> Did I miss something?
>
> 2. I temporarly borrowed another network card
> and plugged a cable in my wireless router-- my
> roomates are not very happy :-(.
>
> Then I configured network, partitions...
> Everything goes fine until at some point,
> my screen becomes black and I am not sure
> what is happening. Even if i press a few keys
> or move the  mouse, nothing happens anymore...
>
> I was compiling stage 1 when this happened the first
> time. I shutdowned my computer and restarted again.
> Now i am in the stage 2 and this just happened again.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> S.
>
>
>
>
>
>
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