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 1FA3tQ-0000Ro-Fi for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:35:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1HBYJBR030601; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:34:19 GMT Received: from eastrmmtao04.cox.net (eastrmmtao04.cox.net [68.230.240.35]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1HBTrnB023817 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:29:54 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.102] (really [70.171.8.190]) by eastrmmtao04.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060217112953.VKPP19943.eastrmmtao04.cox.net@[192.168.1.102]> for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:29:53 -0500 From: Robert Crawford Organization: Florida Cycads To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:29:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <49bf44f10602162032o4c9d5af5i19c0709c287ef8@mail.gmail.com> <1140171444.7667.19.camel@d5150.subnet0.com> In-Reply-To: <1140171444.7667.19.camel@d5150.subnet0.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602170629.40768.flacycads@cox.net> X-Archives-Salt: 0964fad0-1187-49d1-9bb7-1f2bd9266583 X-Archives-Hash: 66fa4ffa585d8d47e1321b9257aab329 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