Gentoo Archives: gentoo-laptop

From: Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-laptop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo wireless within VMWare
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:26:48
Message-Id: 46DE828B.5090406@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-laptop] Gentoo wireless within VMWare by Gary Rickert
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4 Gary Rickert wrote:
5 > Hi guys,
6 >
7 > I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with the IPW2200 card. Current setup is
8 > Windows XP with VMWare Workstation 5.0.0 Gentoo is setup and everything
9 > works. I just can not get gentoo to see the wireless card. I have 2
10 > adapters installed, one sees the LAN port but the other has no way of
11 > communicating with the IPW2200. I have built it in the kernel and
12 > emerged wireless-tools. Removing this from the kernel and emerging
13 > ipw2200-firmware does not work also. iwconfig sees nothing. Any thoughts
14 > off the top of your heads?
15 >
16 > Kindest Regards
17 >
18 > Gary
19
20 have you done lspci to see what the VM gives you for a nic? When I last
21 looked, all of the VM nics were some weird brand (basically the vmware
22 brand). You might be building support for something that doesn't exist.
23
24 Eric
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