Re: [gentoo-user] update catch-22 with Wifi

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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Am Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 06:45:43PM -0500 schrieb Philip Webb:
> I no longer have a landline available (even via friends)
> & rely on Wifi for I/net service, incl software downloads.
> 
> I've been a happy Gentoo user since 2003,
> but want to be able to use Wifi with my  15 yr-old  netbook (32-bit),
> which has always had Gentoo installed & whose hardware incl's Wifi.
> This presents a Catch-22 : how can I install Wifi software ?
> -- I need the I/net to download the files,
> but can't access the I/net without that software installed.
> 
> Is there any way around it ? -- eg could I download files on my desktop,
> then transfer them to the netbook & get that system to use them ?
> 
> Can anyone offer suggestions ?

That’s not really a Gentoo-specific problem, right?
When I had lousy Internet, I did my usual emerge command, but with 
--fetchonly -pv. That way, emerge prints out what it would like to download, 
i.e. the actual concrete URLs with versions and mirrors filled in. I put the 
output into a textfile on a USB drive and carried it to a connected machine, 
where I would run wget --input-file on said drive. I’d been keeping a small, 
old copy of wget for Windows around for exactly that purpse.

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