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On Friday 05 May 2006 08:44, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> I have a new sony lappy with a ipw2200 chipset mini wireless card. |
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> Should I be using the in kernel (2.6.16-r3) drivers or the builds in |
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> portage? Is the a configuration guide for this setup on gentoo? |
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Some will say in kernel, some will say use ebuilds. Honestly i'm not sure of |
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the difference. |
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I use the ebuilds, like so: |
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1) emerge ieee80211 . it will probably tell you that you need to run a |
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script, and fail until you do so. Do what it asks, then merge it again and it |
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will work |
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2) emerge ipw2200 ipw2200-firmware |
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3) have the module ipw2200 loaded at boot and you're set |
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As far as a guide I'm not sure. |
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The only drawback of doing it this way, is that when you change kernels, you |
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have to do the above again. |
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"When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from |
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all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of |
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their soul come out and cling to you. And then they are purified, and |
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become a holy fire in you." -- Ancient Hasidic Saying |
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