Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] G2 on an HP dv5000... need help w/ WiFi and Ethernet
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 21:05:47
Message-Id: 000c01c64161$50be26b0$0200a8c0@donahues.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] G2 on an HP dv5000... need help w/ WiFi and Ethernet by Charles Read
1 lspci finds hardware on the pci bus, the 2005 livecd's genkernel was not so
2 good about
3 compiling all the modules needed to duplicate the livecd performance at
4 finding
5 hardware and installing drivers. It might have. Read up on ndiswrapper.
6 ----- Original Message -----
7 From: "Charles Read" <gentoolist@×××××××××××.com>
8 To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o>
9 Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 2:32 PM
10 Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] G2 on an HP dv5000... need help w/ WiFi and
11 Ethernet
12
13
14 > WOW thanks! I got the ethernet to work. I did 'lspci' and saw a listing
15 > for the Broadcom BCM4318 controller, I used genkernel to make my kernel,
16 > so does the fact that it showed up in 'lspci' mean that I already have a
17 > driver for it?
18 >
19
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