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On Kindle so forced to top post. Sorry. Once you get to a root |
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terminal you are free to follow the Gentoo install. |
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On 9/20/13, Henry W. Peters <hwpeters@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 9/20/2013 2:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Henry, |
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>> In my personal search to find a USB 802.11ac networking adapter I |
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>> ran across one additional resource which might help you, or others |
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>> laters, in your searches. If you were to run the command 'lspci -nn | |
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>> grep Ethernet' as I do here on my desktop: (adjust what you are |
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>> grepping for if it's not Ethernet but rather something else) |
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>> c2RAID6 ~ # lspci -nn | grep Ethernet |
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>> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. |
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>> 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4364] (rev 12) |
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>> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. |
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>> 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4364] (rev 12) |
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>> c2RAID6 ~ # |
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>> then you will find both the Ethernet controllers and their associated |
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>> PCI vendor & device IDs. In my case for the Marvell controllers the ID |
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>> is '11ab:4364' |
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>> If you then go to Google in your browser and put this in the search |
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>> area, making sure to remove the colon: |
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>> "11ab 4364" site:cateee.net/lkddb/ |
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>> the first result directs you to this page: |
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>> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/SKY2.html |
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>> which gives you information about what kernels support this device. |
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>> This works for both PCI & USB device IDs. |
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>> Hope this helps, |
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>> Mark |
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> Thanks Mark for the info. It didn't help directly, but your ideas |
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> spurred me on to find this: |
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> https://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci |
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>> This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on |
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>> Ralink 802.11n PCI chipsets on Debian systems. |
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> Which got my Debian/Mate/XFCE install functioning in wireless mode... |
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> But probably more important, once again rather verifies that there is a |
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> driver problem (with my Ralink) in Gentoo Live DVD... |
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> You mentioned in a previous msg, that it was possible to install Gentoo |
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> from another "live" DVD/C OS... wondering if you know of any how to do |
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> links... ? |
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> Regards, |
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> Henry |
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