Thank you Alan!
Works!!
emerge wicdOn 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?
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
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com