On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:12 +0100, Schafer Frank wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't nderstand why things working on LFS, Redhat 7, Aurox, Mandrake,
> Slackware and Debian don't work on Gentoo.
>
> I have (had) a working WiFi net at home. The machine I "upgraded" from
> Aurox to Gentoo wasn't a participant in this net some time.
>
> I need a driver - of course. The WiFi card is an Intel ProWireless 2200.
> I've choosen the Linux driver for this card. It worked on LFS, Slack and
> Aurox. O.K. I've built it for Gentoo too (without emerge - of course ;).
> The firmware of the card is uploaded using hotplug. So ... ``emerge
> hotplug'' ... and the driver stops working. O.K., I've solved this.
>
> # rc-update del hotplug boot
> # emerge --unmerge hotplug
> # bunzip2 hotplug.tar.bz2
> # tar -xf hotplug.tar
> # cd hotplug
> # make
> # make install
>
> ``modprobe'' now shows, that everything works like a charm (and there
> isn't even a service started).
>
> Now I need wireless-tools. This is masked.
no it is not
> I don't have a clue why. I
> have a working installation on LFS and (had) a working installation on
> Aurox. I tried to install the Gentoo package using ebuild. The fetch
> told me, that the Gentoo people force everybody who needs wireless-tools
> to download and install madwifi.
no they do not.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ esearch wireless-t
[ Results for search key : wireless-t ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
* net-wireless/wireless-tools
Latest version available: 27
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 183 kB
Homepage:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
Description: A collection of tools to configure wireless lan
cards.
License: GPL-2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ emerge -pf wireless-tools
Calculating dependencies ...done!
ftp://linux.jetstreamgames.co.nz/dist/gentoo/distfiles/wireless_tools.27.tar.gzhttp://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/wireless_tools.27.tar.gz
I don't know what drugs you or your computer have been using! perhaps
some USE flag speedball.
> WHY?? None of my wireless-tools
> installations is dependent on this (Intel ProWireless 2200, Edimax,
> Prism2.5 none of this cards need madwifi).
>
> O.K. this is solved too.
>
> # emerge --unmerge wireless-tools
> # emerge --unmerge madwifi
> # bunzip wireless-tools.tar.bz2
> # tar -xf wireless-tools.tar
> # cd wireless-tools
> # make
> # make install
>
> Now I have a further working installation again.
>
> ... so the machine is in the net again :) I'd smile even more if I had
> achieved this in a more Gentoo way. :|
>
> Well, now when I've convinced the machine running Gentoo to co-work in
> the net, I've a further question.
>
> What will I have to do to change from simpleinit to sysv init? Would it
> be sufficiennt to emerge sysv? Will I have to unmerge simpleinit? I'd
> like to have my initscripts #!/bin/sh.
>
> Regards and thanks in advance
> Frank
>
>
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