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

[Drake Donahue]

<snip> support for the 5390 is probably not on the livedvd
a system rescue cd may provide

from my menuconfig: I use several rotating usb ralinks
--- Ralink driver support
< >   Ralink rt2400 (PCI/PCMCIA) support                             
< >   Ralink rt2500 (PCI/PCMCIA) support                             
< >   Ralink rt2501/rt61 (PCI/PCMCIA) support                        
< >   Ralink rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx (PCI/PCIe/PCMCIA) support          
< >   Ralink rt2500 (USB) support                                    
< >   Ralink rt2501/rt73 (USB) support                               
<M>   Ralink rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx (USB) support                      
[*]     rt2800usb - Include support for rt33xx devices               
[*]     rt2800usb - Include support for rt35xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*]     rt2800usb - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*]     rt2800usb - Include support for rt55xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*]     rt2800usb - Include support for unknown (USB) devices        
[ ]   Ralink debug output
 
Menuconfig help for RT53XX:
CONFIG_RT2800USB_RT53XX: 
 
 This adds support for rt53xx wireless chipset family to the 
 rt2800usb driver. 
 Supported chips: RT5370 
 
 Symbol: RT2800USB_RT53XX [=y] 
 Type : boolean 
 Prompt: rt2800usb - Include support for rt53xx devices (EXPERIMENTAL) 
 Location: 
 -> Device Drivers 
 -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y]) 
 -> Wireless LAN (WLAN [=y]) 
 -> Ralink driver support (RT2X00 [=m]) 
 -> Ralink rt27xx/rt28xx/rt30xx (USB) support (RT2800USB [=m]) 
 Defined at drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig:169 
 Depends on: NETDEVICES [=y] && WLAN [=y] && RT2X00 [=m] && \ 
 RT2800USB [=m]