Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Excerpt from Stroller: My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing that might have been

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 July 2013, at 07:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. ... Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-04 Thread Stroller
On 3 July 2013, at 17:28, Zind wrote: ... Use an external network adapter, uh... I never thought of that. AFAIK, many USB netwok adapters won't work correctly with Linux. My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network adaptors have worked. Maybe I've just been lucky

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-03 Thread Zind
Thanks to all of you, guys. It's really kind of you. I should have replied the e-mail in time, but I was busy with work recent days, sorry. I will try your suggestions, and continue the installation very soon. On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 29

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-03 Thread Zind
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.ukwrote: If I'm understanding correctly, that it's the LiveCD that can't connect to the network (rather than the installed system) Yes. Two alternatives that spring to mind are: 1. Many USB network adaptors are

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-03 Thread Zind
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com wrote: I can confirm that these firmware files are in the linux-firmware package. What confuses me is that iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode and iwlwifi-2030-5.ucode do EXIST in the LiveUSB. But they just couldn't be loaded properly. :-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-01 Thread Gregory Shearman
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: 2013/6/29 Zind wzmind...@gmail.com Can you search with dmesg and find if it's nead a firmware. Yes. At the bottom of the dmesg message, I can see these lines: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode' failed. request for firmware file

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:47:04 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: You can try to use SystemRescueCD[1] (based on Gentoo) instead of the minimum install CD. The instructions are identical, but sometimes the SystemRescueCD is more up-to-date. The alx ethernet driver is in kernel 3.10.0. System Rescue

[gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Zind
hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo installation process. I got a relatively new laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Y400. The Gentoo iso I choose is: admincd-amd64-20130620.iso, from: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/20130620/hardened/ After I made the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread the
On 06/29/13 12:16, Zind wrote: hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo installation process. I got a relatively new laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Y400. The Gentoo iso I choose is: admincd-amd64-20130620.iso, from:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Davide De Prisco
Can you search with dmesg and find if it's nead a firmware. Davide Il giorno 29/giu/2013 10:17, Zind wzmind...@gmail.com ha scritto: hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo installation process. I got a relatively new laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Y400. The Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Zind
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Davide De Prisco deprisco.dav...@gmail.com wrote: Can you search with dmesg and find if it's nead a firmware. Yes. At the bottom of the dmesg message, I can see these lines: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-2030-6.ucode' failed. request for firmware file

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/6/29 Zind wzmind...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Davide De Prisco deprisco.dav...@gmail.com wrote: Can you search with dmesg and find if it's nead a firmware. Yes. At the bottom of the dmesg message, I can see these lines: request for firmware file

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Zind
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: Maybe this can be helpful in some way? http://blechtog.wordpress.com/**2012/08/06/gentoo-ethernet-**

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread the
On 06/29/13 13:30, Zind wrote: On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:52 PM, the the.gu...@mail.ru mailto:the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: Maybe this can be helpful in some way?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/6/29 Zind wzmind...@gmail.com: hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo installation process. I got a relatively new laptop: Lenovo IdeaPad Y400. The Gentoo iso I choose is: admincd-amd64-20130620.iso, from:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 06/29/2013 04:16 AM, Zind wrote: hi all, I am new to Gentoo. I came across some problems in the Gentoo installation process. ... After several times of STFW, I can confirm it's a network adapter driver support issue: lacks of coresponding network adapter drivers. For the AR8161

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-06-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 June 2013, at 09:16, Zind wrote: After I made the LiveUSB, disabling the UEFI boot, I finally boot into the Gentoo kernel. But I could not connect to the network. ... After several times of STFW, I can confirm it's a network adapter driver support issue: lacks of