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