Colin wrote:
Just got around to trying to boot Gentoo 2005.0 on my desktop. My hard drive controller is now natively supported (Highpoint HPT372N), so the LiveCD booted without a problem. But now my wireless adapter (D-Link DWL-120+) isn't supported, since I don't have any network devices other than eth0 (wired) and lo. Seeing as how this is my Internet connection, I'm stuck yet again. (I'm not a big fan of stage3 installs.)
Since I (strangely enough) have money in my wallet, are there any wireless cards that are natively supported in Gentoo?
-- Colin
Googling for Linux support for DWL-120+ shows that it is supported by acx100 project (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/). However in the ebuild for it in portage it says that USB is disabled in the ebuild because it doesn't compile.
* net-wireless/acx100 [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.2.0_pre8-r5
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of downloaded files: 275 kB
Homepage: http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
Description: Driver for the ACX100 and ACX111 wireless chipset (CardBus, PCI, USB driver disabled because it does not compile)
License: GPL-2 as-is
It is unfortunate since the acx100 people seem to think it works well (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/matrix.html). Looking at the emerge file I did not see any reference to usb at all. The emerge uses the latest source from couple of days ago so it is really up to date and maybe the description is out of date and will compile. Also there is a huge guide to getting your card running but it is not Gentoo-specific (http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php).
Eugene.
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