From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FGXuC-0004rV-95 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Mar 2006 08:50:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k278nEnL002987; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:49:14 GMT Received: from ihemail1.lucent.com (ihemail1.lucent.com [192.11.222.161]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k278nD2m009757 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:49:13 GMT Received: from plmail.pl.lucent.com (h135-171-20-3.lucent.com [135.171.20.3]) by ihemail1.lucent.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k278n8Rp020089 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 02:49:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from [135.171.23.131] ([135.171.23.131]) by plmail.pl.lucent.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k278m5EF028124 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:48:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <440D4A13.2010802@lucent.com> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:53:39 +0100 From: Przemyslaw Hoppe User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060206) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] G2 on an HP dv5000... need help w/ WiFi and Ethernet References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1250 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k278nEoL002987 X-Archives-Salt: c93a66dc-91dd-4b78-828f-3a4af9eedc24 X-Archives-Hash: c7a1fa8ade98e620b6ad4cde6ae66dc7 Charles Read napisa=B3(a): > Hey everybody! >=20 > I just got an HP Pavillion dv5000 with the Turion 64 chip, I used the > gentoo x86-64 discs and the install went well, the system boots fine. =20 > But gentoo doesnt recognize my built-in wifi (by Broadcom I think, but = I > can't seem to find out which chipset it uses) and it also doesnt > recognize my ethernet card (I think a Realtek 8139 810x ), I have tried > 'modprobe 8139cp' but ifconfig shows only lo. I haven't messed w/ linu= x > in a while, can somebody please point me in the right direction? I hav= e > tried googling but I am evidently missing something. >=20 > Thanks in advance! >=20 > Charles Read > --gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list >=20 >=20 I've been using ndiswrapper on my Compaq r4000, but few days ago I installed ieee80211softmac and bcm43xx as kernel module drivers for Broadcom BCM4306 and now I can use my notebook as access point or use kismet :). Try http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ or http://linux-bcom4301.sourceforge.net/ Regards Przemek Hoppe --=20 gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list