From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FAAgp-0008Ra-UA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:50:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1HIl1Aa004762; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:47:01 GMT Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1HIYP12009815 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:34:26 GMT Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b2so309329nfe for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:34:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=b0eUbsUz4ifuR+qqNd3Mb3KVrW6VUVOj/QcrcSMKiWxEVdmZkwbMyze1uWgIZrWLdS5qntmsFoz0KwxtW3Ai0Or1IU1Lsh8aZwlpDmDOqUGRw9lVUdnZ/UV79icavFUre/loKB1f5NUBJ+js3QX65ZKhscFEV5YdWQpA6dt8C1w= Received: by 10.48.144.20 with SMTP id r20mr514548nfd; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:34:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.95.3 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 10:34:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10602171034h51b1fc0dpb7d92e1c2d7d9efb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:34:24 -0500 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo In-Reply-To: <1140171444.7667.19.camel@d5150.subnet0.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10602162032o4c9d5af5i19c0709c287ef8@mail.gmail.com> <1140171444.7667.19.camel@d5150.subnet0.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1HIYP12009815 X-Archives-Salt: 41fde4b7-3cb6-4dac-a92a-f7994785bff4 X-Archives-Hash: 58e1ddc18e81022c152e2d9032f668dd > > I've been struggling to get my wireless card to connect to the WEP > > Airport router at my housing complex. It turns out it connects just > > fine using a Knoppix disc and manual ifconfig/iwconfig commands, but > > the same commands don't work in Gentoo. My Gentoo packages are > > totally up to date. I'm using madwifi. Any suggestions? > > > > - Grant > > > > Hi Grant, > > Firstly have you got wireless extensions enabled in the kernel? > -CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y > I believe that is a requirement. > > Is the madwifi-driver installed and the module loaded? > -modprobe ath_pci > > If it can't find the module emerge the madwifi-driver package > -emerge madwifi-driver > or alternatively try the madwifi-ng code at http://madwifi.org > Both methods should give you a "ath0" interface. > > Are you getting any error messages?, when you run "iwconfig" does it > show wireless related settings on the relevant interface? > > Hope this helps. > Let us know, Hi Rob, I should have mentioned that this card works great with all other access points: WEP, WPA, and unencrypted. It just seems to have a problem with this Airport under Gentoo. - Grant > Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list