Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are totally up to date. I'm using madwifi. Any suggestions? - Grant Hi Grant, Firstly have you got wireless extensions enabled in the kernel? -CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y I believe that is a requirement. Is the madwifi-driver installed and the module loaded? -modprobe ath_pci If it can't find the module emerge the madwifi-driver package -emerge madwifi-driver or alternatively try the madwifi-ng code at http://madwifi.org Both methods should give you a ath0 interface. Are you getting any error messages?, when you run iwconfig does it show wireless related settings on the relevant interface? Hope this helps. Let us know, Rob signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Friday 17 February 2006 05:17, Rob Oravec wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 23:32 -0500, Grant wrote: I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are totally up to date. I'm using madwifi. Any suggestions? - Grant Hi Grant, Firstly have you got wireless extensions enabled in the kernel? -CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y I believe that is a requirement. Is the madwifi-driver installed and the module loaded? -modprobe ath_pci If it can't find the module emerge the madwifi-driver package -emerge madwifi-driver or alternatively try the madwifi-ng code at http://madwifi.org Both methods should give you a ath0 interface. Are you getting any error messages?, when you run iwconfig does it show wireless related settings on the relevant interface? Hope this helps. Let us know, Rob You also need to emerge madwifi-tools, and you need ath_hal loaded too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 06:29 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: You also need to emerge madwifi-tools, and you need ath_hal loaded too. Emerging madwifi-driver will emerge madwifi-tools. I have never needed to explicitly load ath_hal as ath_pci loads it dynamically even with the older madwifi code. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
