Re: [gentoo-user] atheros wifi for gentoo..

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 4:25 PM, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> ATH5K has been in the kernel for a little while,the reason
>> for using
>> 2.6.28 is that it also supports the wired NIC. With the
>> addition of the
>> eee ACPI modules, I can now run with no third party modules
>> on my Eee.
>>
>
> When I do a search for 2.6.28 I get a patch. For gentoo-sources, 2.6.27 is the latest I can find.
>
> Currently using 2.6.24. Will that patch bridge the gap?
>
> At a big disadvantage here, my home PC, gentoo, is woefully out of date and I can't do anything for it because my ISP, hdcanada.com, just disappeared. No warning, no explanation. I have to pedal to town and use the wifi with the EEE.
>
> mw

Well, it's a bit of a pain, but you can grab a portage snapshot from
the mirrors and throw it in place on your home pc, get a list of the
files you need to fetch, go back out to town, grab the packages, and
then take those home to install.

A couple handy commands...
On Gentoo:
emerge --fetchonly --pretend <other options and package atoms> 2> download.lst

On an internet connected system (even doable on Windows with a ported
copy of wget):
wget -c -nc -i download.lst

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Joshua M. Murphy