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On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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> > I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing |
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> > out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO. |
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> > I'll check and confirm this tonight. |
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> Also check bugzilla. I remember reporting a bug with the more recent |
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> kernels failing to build kernel drivers. The last kernel that I managed to |
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> build rt2570 was 2.6.20-gentoo-r8. Kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 fails to emerge |
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> any driver whatsoever. |
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I have now (finally) successfully compiled the latest kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 |
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kernel. Once I enabled the 'Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack (mac80211)' |
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option in Networking --> Wireless, the Realtek RTL8187 USB support option |
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appears in Device Drivers --> Network Device Support --> Wireless LAN section |
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under wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11). |
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With this RTL8187 driver compiled into the kernel, I get some success. |
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Running the command 'dmesg | grep rtl8187' after reboot returns the message |
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usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187 |
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There is, however, no /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 on my system, so I'm not quite |
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there yet. |
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There is a net.eth0 (wired network), and a net.lo |
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What do I need to do to get net.wlan0 active? |
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Thanks |
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Jeff |
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