Re: [gentoo-amd64] Can't connect to internet from Live DVD.

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Henry W. Peters <hwpeters@××××××××.com>wrote:

>  Back (again) at trying to install Gentoo with new "stuff."
>
> Now, I'm having problems with my "Ralink RT5390R 802.1 bgn Wi-Fi Adapter"
> (in my new HP Pavillion 500, AMD64 desktop). Besides the Gentoo LiveDVD
> (AMD64)... in which neither a wireless or ethernet network is apparently
> detected by the DVD (udev?), I DID try "System rescue CD," no internet
> connect there either.
>
> In the spirit of seeing if I could boot up with UEFI (as you may be aware,
> Windows 8 version of a bios) & an external USB 3 hard drive (yet some
> problems to be resolved; i.e., how to handle dual os's in a workable
> manner), I also tried Ubuntu Studio live DVD (all of this in "legacy" mode,
> though I did not actually install), & it configured wireless for me, all I
> had to do was enter my router key... then I also temporarily installed
> Debian Wheezy & Mate... on the external hd, which wouldn't connect with
> wireless, but would via ethernet (the installation more or less worked;
> Gnome 3 does apparently not like my AMD64 Radeon integrated graphics card [image:
> :?] ). Very puzzling. [image: :?:]
>
> Any suggestions welcome!
> Henry
>
> P.s., I think I read awhile ago, something about an RF kill switch...?
> (not sure of the relevancy, but thought I might ask, just in case...)
>

Henry,
   I think it would be good if you posted the output of a few commands so
we could get our bearings:

uname -a

lspci -k

lsmod

   My wife's laptop uses wireless. I took a quick look in her kernel config
and don't find "RALINK" so I'm not sure what driver should be enabled.

   In terms of doing the install presumably you have a wired Ethernet port
on this laptop? If so you are likely to do better with that during install.
I didn't get her ATH9K wireless working until I was running Gentoo.

Good luck,
Mark