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

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Henry W. Peters <hwpeters@××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/2013 6:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Henry,
>>     Report back how it goes. I've never been forced to bring up
>> wireless during an install so I'd like to understand how you make it
>> work under Gentoo and what problems you run into, if any. I'm assuming
>> here that Arch doesn't have any proprietary magic about getting
>> wireless started and that eventually a new Gentoo Live DVD would be
>> able to do the same thing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
> Mark,
>
> Well I went into the section that shows one's hardware, drivers, etc. in the
> live CD for Arch Linux  (didn't take notes, so don't remember the exact term
> for it) & DID look like the Ralink & the ethernet adaptor (Qualcomm Atheros)
> had drivers recognized... I wasn't prepared to try to connect to anyplace
> from in the shell, so I will try that too (as I can). & will let you know
> (how it goes, if it does).
>
> It does look like having uptodate drivers are most probably (among) the
> problem solvers (i.e., this problem is likely solvable). I also have burned
> the "latest" snapshot minimal Gentoo install, which I have not yet tried,
> which I will do, too.
>
> Regards,
> Henry
>
>

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