Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

["Florian Philipp" <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>]

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On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > > I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing
> > > out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO.
> > >
> > > I'll check and confirm this tonight.
> >
> > Also check bugzilla.  I remember reporting a bug with the more recent
> > kernels failing to build kernel drivers.  The last kernel that I managed to
> > build rt2570 was 2.6.20-gentoo-r8.  Kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 fails to emerge
> > any driver whatsoever.
> 
> I have now (finally) successfully compiled the latest kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 
> kernel.  Once I enabled the 'Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)' 
> option in Networking --> Wireless, the Realtek RTL8187 USB support option 
> appears in Device Drivers --> Network Device Support --> Wireless LAN section 
> under wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11).
> 
> With this RTL8187 driver compiled into the kernel, I get some success.
> 
> Running the command 'dmesg | grep rtl8187' after reboot returns the message
> usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
> 
> There is, however, no /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 on my system, so I'm not quite 
> there yet.
> 
> There is a net.eth0 (wired network), and a net.lo
> What do I need to do to get net.wlan0 active?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jeff

Check the output of "iwconfig". Maybe the device's got another name like
eth1 or rtl0

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