Don't know if this helps , just my two cents. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2100
More , precisely this lines: emerge hotplug rc-update add hotplug default AFAIK , hotplug manages all the hardware that may be plugged/unplugged at will ( and network interfaces fall in this category ) under udev. Don't know if you need it without udev , never tried. Hope this helps. On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 15:28 +0800, æåå wrote: > Hi, Gentooers, > i recently installed gentoo on my laptop, > i works fine except the following: > several days ago, i compile the kernel without > devfs and emerge udev, everything was fine > but just when i tried to surf the internet but it seems > to have something wrong with my WLAN card, > when i wanted it up using > > modprobe ipw2100 > > it goes wrong ,telling me symbol error or > can't find /dev/eth1 or something like that > //sorry for i currently using the card , so > //i cann't repeat the error accurately. > > could someone tell me how to deal with that? > thx in advance. > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Ivan Yosifov. -- [email protected] mailing list
