[gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[maxim wexler]

Hi group,.too is considerably tougher. Xandros must die! But it has support for the wifi, so the linux drivers must be out there. I don't want to start dragging around more unnecessary stuff to   get on line at my favo(u)rite cafe.

I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G SSHD with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset;also the ethernet would be nice, it uses the L1e Gigabit chip, another Atheros product.


      

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:06:13 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G
> SSHD with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset;also the ethernet would be
> nice, it uses the L1e Gigabit chip, another Atheros product.

Use a 2.6.28 kernel and enable ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired.


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[daid kahl]

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2009/2/19 Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>

> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:06:13 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
>
> > I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G
> > SSHD with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset;also the ethernet would be
> > nice, it uses the L1e Gigabit chip, another Atheros product.
>
> Use a 2.6.28 kernel and enable ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired.
>
>
> I'm using a 2.6.26 kernel without ATH5K enabled for an Atheros wireless LAN
card.

I'm using madwifi drivers straight from the madwifi project, and you can see
my simple instructions for installation at
http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=14920

This may not be as good a suggestion as the former, so I don't post it in
contradiction, but just as extra information.  My method works with kernels
at least as old at 2.6.20

~daid

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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:55:29 +0900, daid kahl wrote:

> > Use a 2.6.28 kernel and enable ATH5K for wireless and ATL2 for wired.

> This may not be as good a suggestion as the former, so I don't post it
> in contradiction, but just as extra information.  My method works with
> kernels at least as old at 2.6.20

ATH5K has been in the kernel for a little while,the reason for using
2.6.28 is that it also supports the wired NIC. With the addition of the
eee ACPI modules, I can now run with no third party modules on my Eee.


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[maxim wexler]

> ATH5K has been in the kernel for a little while,the reason
> for using
> 2.6.28 is that it also supports the wired NIC. With the
> addition of the
> eee ACPI modules, I can now run with no third party modules
> on my Eee.
> 

When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is the latest I can find.

Currently using 2.6.24. Will that patch bridge the gap?

At a big disadvantage here, my home PC, gentoo, is woefully out of date and I can't do anything for it because my ISP, hdcanada.com, just disappeared. No warning, no explanation. I have to pedal to town and use the wifi with the EEE. 

mw


      

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:25:22 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27
> is the latest I can find.

I'm using tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 on this Eee and gentoo-sources-2.6.28
on my desktop. Either you haven't synced recently or you are only
looking at stable packages.


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[maxim wexler]

--- On Sat, 2/21/09, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Received: Saturday, February 21, 2009, 2:53 PM
> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 13:25:22 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler
> wrote:
> 
> > When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For
 ebu> gentoo-sources, 2.6.27
> > is the latest I can find.
> 
> I'm using tuxonice-sources-2.6.28 on this Eee and
> gentoo-sources-2.6.28
> on my desktop. Either you haven't synced recently or
> you are only
> looking at stable packages.
> 

Just finding the ebuild. Can't sink -- no ISP. Good news, I've uncovered the shell, ctl+alt+t,FYI. I've found a fairly speedy wifi spot in town, so I can download whatever I need -- just don't know what that is.


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:10:37 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> Just finding the ebuild. Can't sink -- no ISP. Good news, I've
> uncovered the shell, ctl+alt+t,FYI. I've found a fairly speedy wifi
> spot in town, so I can download whatever I need -- just don't know what
> that is.

Just sync at the wifi hotspot then emerge -f tuxonice-sources. Make sure
it's in /etc/portage/package.keywords if you're not running ~arch.


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[maxim wexler]

Hi Neil,

In a Catch-22. Only have Xandros on the EEE. I understand it's Debian-based. Are you aware of a method to use Debian to accomplish this?

mw


--- On Sat, 2/28/09, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Received: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 4:09 PM
> On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:10:37 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler
> wrote:
> 
> > Just finding the ebuild. Can't sink -- no ISP.
> Good news, I've
> > uncovered the shell, ctl+alt+t,FYI. I've found a
> fairly speedy wifi
> > spot in town, so I can download whatever I need --
> just don't know what
> > that is.
> 
> Just sync at the wifi hotspot then emerge -f
> tuxonice-sources. Make sure
> it's in /etc/portage/package.keywords if you're not
> running ~arch.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Neil Bothwick
> 
> Be nice to moderators. They HATE that!


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:18:31 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:

> In a Catch-22. Only have Xandros on the EEE. I understand it's
> Debian-based. Are you aware of a method to use Debian to accomplish
> this?

Run the emerge command on another computer, or read the ebuild and see
what it needs to download.

Please don't top-post.


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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Joshua Murphy]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> ATH5K has been in the kernel for a little while,the reason
>> for using
>> 2.6.28 is that it also supports the wired NIC. With the
>> addition of the
>> eee ACPI modules, I can now run with no third party modules
>> on my Eee.
>>
>
> When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is the latest I can find.
>
> Currently using 2.6.24. Will that patch bridge the gap?
>
> At a big disadvantage here, my home PC, gentoo, is woefully out of date and I can't do anything for it because my ISP, hdcanada.com, just disappeared. No warning, no explanation. I have to pedal to town and use the wifi with the EEE.
>
> mw

Well, it's a bit of a pain, but you can grab a portage snapshot from
the mirrors and throw it in place on your home pc, get a list of the
files you need to fetch, go back out to town, grab the packages, and
then take those home to install.

A couple handy commands...
On Gentoo:
emerge --fetchonly --pretend <other options and package atoms> 2> download.lst

On an internet connected system (even doable on Windows with a ported
copy of wget):
wget -c -nc -i download.lst

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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Joshua Murphy]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> A couple handy commands...
> On Gentoo:
> emerge --fetchonly --pretend <other options and package atoms> 2> download.lst
>
> On an internet connected system (even doable on Windows with a ported
> copy of wget):
> wget -c -nc -i download.lst
>
> --
> Poison [BLX]
> Joshua M. Murphy
>

A correction to this... while I've seen the first used elsewhere, it's
not at all doing what is needed... so...

emerge --pretend --verbose --fetchonly <other options and package
atoms> | tail --lines=+6 > download.lst

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Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Joshua Murphy]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A couple handy commands...
>> On Gentoo:
>> emerge --fetchonly --pretend <other options and package atoms> 2> download.lst
>>
>> On an internet connected system (even doable on Windows with a ported
>> copy of wget):
>> wget -c -nc -i download.lst
>>
>> --
>> Poison [BLX]
>> Joshua M. Murphy
>>
>
> A correction to this... while I've seen the first used elsewhere, it's
> not at all doing what is needed... so...
>
> emerge --pretend --verbose --fetchonly <other options and package
> atoms> | tail --lines=+6 > download.lst

And eventually I'll get it right... wget doesn't like the space
delimited urls, and wants them on their own lines. Good job for sed.

emerge --pretend --verbose --fetchonly <other options and package
atoms> | tail --lines=+6 | sed 's# #\n#g' > download.lst

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Joshua M. Murphy

Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Dirk Heinrichs]

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Am Mittwoch, 18. Februar 2009 23:06:13 schrieb maxim wexler:

> I would love to hear from someone who managed a gentoo install on a 4G SSHD
> with the onboard Atheros wifi chipset

Which chipset exactly? Depending on the chipset you'll nedd to use either 
madwifi, ath5k or ath9k. The latter is only available in the latest kernels 
(.28).

HTH...

	Dirk

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