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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:14:42 +0000
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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=
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try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above.
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Regards,
Mick
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