Thank you Alan!
Works!!

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>