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 1M55ZQ-0008UB-6i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 22:08:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA7E4E054F; Fri, 15 May 2009 22:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (unknown [212.21.116.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D454E054F for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 22:07:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.194.217.10] (faust.genestate.com [10.194.217.10]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699F361A1D for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 23:07:56 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4A0DE7BC.4030606@genestate.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 23:07:56 +0100 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] help needed to connect wifi on eeeSTOKED! References: <708782.52691.qm@web31607.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9bf2f3a4-dd25-4aa1-be07-10e1aaec60b2 X-Archives-Hash: 10278f2d3712db3f926c374aab007a2e James Ausmus wrote: > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:53 PM, maxim wexler > wrote: > > > > > ifconfig wlan0 up > > > > > > iwlist wlan0 scan reveals the network name, the chan. > > > > > > iwconfig wlan0 essid "Network Name" > > > > > > iwconfig wlan0 chan 1 > > > > > > > dhcpcd wlan0 should sort this. > > > > It did, thanks Neil! Now, can you point a way forword? My eeepc is > strictly bare bones, for now, no X, haven't even written make.conf yet. > > There's some interesting stuff re: gentoo on eeepc on the eee forum > but it's rather dated. Can you suggest some sort of wiki or? > > > > Hi Maixm- > > I have just (first full boot with X this morning, actually) gotten my > wife's eeePC 900A switched over to Gentoo. I have a full install with > kernel 2.6.29, X (1.6.1), Intel drivers (with DRI2, enabling *very* > smooth and fast compositing), full KDE 4.2.3, WiFi and Wired ethernet, > Firefox, Openoffice, NetworkManager, and all the usuals, all in a 2.7GB > disk footprint, and without doing any compiling on the eeePC itself (I > used my Core2Duo ~amd64 Gentoo box to do all the heavy lifting, then > made a bootable 4GB SD card with the resulting FS - will move over to > internal 4GB SSD once I've put the final touches on it). I have full > eeePC hotkey support (except for an issue I've found with the rfkill > (Wifi radio on/off) functionality - the HW (PHY) refuses to power back > up once it's turned off. I believe it was working in the original > Xandros, so I'll probably be doing some kernel hacking to get it > working). If you would like, I can take some time this weekend and write > up how I went about doing it and post it - interested? > > -James > > I for one would be interested in a writeup like this. I've been getting gentoo onto my eee, and its going well. I'm just missing the finer details like hotkeys, suspend on lid closing and tweaking the intel drivers. Thanks ~Matt