From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J3xBQ-0004iA-1o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:21:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBGHKKiM028659; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:20:20 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBGHG1tP023623 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:16:01 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id f5so1063960nfh.26 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:16:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=OuD4MRJKcy2nQkR/1mfkjHKiPKlYOmRjXp2x4QjUkrI=; b=iHjTN0pwBTs+wm4hlktcOrXdBNlU0uEsxFZJJBb44TUGUGap424nZp3tR3blhlWVKwAcN2WUYbz/fJnC2AAPr2KKuBA0609bPIcdQoVS8MPXvyBVLPd8YSE11WAg1VylSbnSS7VClVkWeP9TP4UccY+feJbygrLJgMBeIX+oKTc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=souy1i3wyDdcb84p2ihK6najkAGlQyK3dT5ty/20FrFXK8jvvd6isUZ3iQtAF4C1W0Qz56nFcbiTPSYjzcmMQZyxA+o20ZgDEvr1ItZ2P/XWnvc1SDIKCU6YnPYr1JThOadVSGtJ0max+Ysf1x2+wx6LibvlgQ6hyKvNgvFMLz4= Received: by 10.78.170.6 with SMTP id s6mr6985730hue.62.1197825360359; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:16:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f8sm15067500nfh.2007.12.16.09.15.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:15:58 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:14:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <16035281.1197383215140.JavaMail.root@elwamui-darkeyed.atl.sa.earthlink.net> <1197802249.20342.1226824267@webmail.messagingengine.com> <200712160911.52454.jcranmer01@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <200712160911.52454.jcranmer01@earthlink.net> 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 Message-Id: <200712161714.43644.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3570277.21bZKVJOAW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ababa525-f997-4974-9971-005adb121043 X-Archives-Hash: 23ba33c2db1a44d67800664d968e2168 --nextPart3570277.21bZKVJOAW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > All I get for iwconfig is > lo no wireless extensions > eth0 no wireless extensions. This means that the driver has not been loaded yet. In generic terms you'l= l=20 need to install the necessary driver for your WiFi device (either the new o= ne=20 in the kernel or emerge net-wireless/rtl8187, or ndiswrapper and the MS=20 Windows driver). If you build the driver as a module then you need to=20 modprobe -v rtl8187, while you keep an eye on the logs to see how things go= =20 (tail -f /var/log/messages). You have seen this, right? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187 > I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to > create the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver. >=20 > The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and > net.eth0 You will of course have to manually create a symlink between net.wlan0 ->=20 net.lo (or whatever your new WiFi device is recognised as by the kernel) so= =20 that you can bring it up by running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start. But this = is=20 only necessary for autoloading the driver through the runlevel scripts. To= =20 try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3570277.21bZKVJOAW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHZV0D5Fp0QerLYPcRAiw+AKCuKmFcKtn//F6xhUdSlFL+zhbRDQCfVeFA oVD2otbQKj91UbjDoSVL2Zg= =NfUl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3570277.21bZKVJOAW-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list