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

[Henry W. Peters]

On 9/20/2013 2:50 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Henry,
>     In my personal search to find a USB 802.11ac networking adapter I
> ran across one additional resource which might help you, or others
> laters, in your searches. If you were to run the command 'lspci -nn |
> grep Ethernet' as I do here on my desktop: (adjust what you are
> grepping for if it's not Ethernet but rather something else)
>
> c2RAID6 ~ # lspci -nn | grep Ethernet
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
> 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4364] (rev 12)
> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
> 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4364] (rev 12)
> c2RAID6 ~ #
>
> then you will find both the Ethernet controllers and their associated
> PCI vendor & device IDs. In my case for the Marvell controllers the ID
> is '11ab:4364'
>
> If you then go to Google in your browser and put this in the search
> area, making sure to remove the colon:
>
> "11ab 4364" site:cateee.net/lkddb/
>
> the first result directs you to this page:
>
> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/SKY2.html
>
> which gives you information about what kernels support this device.
>
>     This works for both PCI & USB device IDs.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mark
Thanks Mark for the info. It didn't help directly, but your ideas 
spurred me on to find this:

https://wiki.debian.org/rt2800pci

> This page describes how to enable support for WiFi devices based on
> Ralink 802.11n PCI chipsets on Debian systems.


Which got my Debian/Mate/XFCE install functioning in wireless mode... 
But probably more important, once again rather verifies that there is a 
driver problem (with my Ralink) in Gentoo Live DVD...

You mentioned in a previous msg, that it was possible to install Gentoo 
from another "live" DVD/C OS... wondering if you know of any how to do 
links... ?

Regards,
Henry