From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mh7a7-0001Os-H1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:57:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE2B3E086D for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:07:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BEDEE0532 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so2152993fxm.34 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:12:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:message-id :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XHCXLMAiwahdoACL4u6qiXX85jqU86jVOj5xf8/5pZM=; b=tCmAlhhl5M6N9WuW/JrXHQLvPAqet2bdJkxtbNFu3yrnOXuEr1rDv5ouixJXgjQrDV N5PU1/hieVjiAA9eoPLm0YKEYDK1FqMqjsZrN3NywbZu3XpwEbuVY2qqBWHoWat1up+q sTg7/USUfCbvNqcFjsRIh1hzMgOoR+9WBpk4U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=W1L5bH2GsIuPon6bp91pUCfb3wN/ddrjV8/dGkQ2WHpQSJHMTJysiPdns4d/t13i0v rMF50bcMV9KYjxnwVCTHf+dEqebmCch0TNJOLZW69EKSha4TcDUUqy8stWSB6DcV7D/k FCbHqykeVDkvqDgxs3rcxPLV4azPli8qmDzRI= Received: by 10.86.230.30 with SMTP id c30mr4040089fgh.68.1251187922700; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:12:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l12sm7192867fgb.6.2009.08.25.01.12.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:12:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Configure WIFI lan Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:10:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <445a8b100908250048o63fe1f74q53754a19e6b1ac7a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <445a8b100908250048o63fe1f74q53754a19e6b1ac7a@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200908251010.07402.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1523996a-d730-4073-8bd7-b25a3fad8297 X-Archives-Hash: 3d55600d94f29562644ca4679d27587c On Tuesday 25 August 2009 09:48:34 Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > Hi all. > > This is the output of dmesg | grep iwl > > xxx ~ # dmesg | grep iwl > [ 1.906142] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, > 1.3.27ks > [ 1.906249] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation > [ 1.906361] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ > 17 > [ 1.906445] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > [ 1.906464] iwlagn: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54 > [ 1.936202] iwlagn: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels > [ 1.936421] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled > [ 1.936720] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' > > Could someone please point me to some documentation about how to > configure/activate/use wireless with gentoo? emerge wicd All your troubles will just go away. I'm talking about all the troubles that appear if you are so foolish as to install networkmanager -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com