Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

[Jeff Cranmer]

I've tried to run through the instructions at
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187.

The kernel is configured per that guide, and I get the message:
usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187

When I try to run ifconfig wlan0 up, however, I get:
wlan0: unknown interface: no such device

I get the same result if I run ifconfig wlan up (net.wlan is the symlink that 
I set up in /etc/init.d)

The wireless section of my /etc/conf.d/net file reads
mode_wlan="managed"
wpa_supplicant_wlan="-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_RTL8187.conf"
config_wlan=( "dhcp" )
dhcp_wlan="-R -G"

wpa_supplicant has been emerged.

Jeff


On Sunday 16 December 2007 12:14:42 pm Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 16 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > All I get for iwconfig is
> > lo		no wireless extensions
> > eth0	no wireless extensions.
>
> This means that the driver has not been loaded yet.  In generic terms
> you'll need to install the necessary driver for your WiFi device (either
> the new one in the kernel or emerge net-wireless/rtl8187, or ndiswrapper
> and the MS Windows driver).  If you build the driver as a module then you
> need to modprobe -v rtl8187, while you keep an eye on the logs to see how
> things go (tail -f /var/log/messages).  You have seen this, right?
>
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187
>
> > I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to
> > create the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver.
> >
> > The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and
> > net.eth0
>
> You will of course have to manually create a symlink between net.wlan0 ->
> net.lo (or whatever your new WiFi device is recognised as by the kernel) so
> that you can bring it up by running /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start.  But this
> is only necessary for autoloading the driver through the runlevel scripts.
> To try it out follow the instructions in the Wiki page above.
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