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From: Richard Watson <waty@×××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ...
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 09:19:10
Message-Id: EGEFKDJCACCPFDKMNLCJKEKHDJAA.waty@bigpond.net.au
1 Hi - Can anyone explain to a complete idiot (me) simply how to get my
2 internal wireless adaptor going. I know it works as I've got it running off
3 the Livecd and XP on an unsecured network. I went through creating:
4
5 # ln -s net.lo net.eth0 (Wirelesss card - reports wireless extensions not
6 found)
7 # ln -s net.lo net.eth1 (Seen as NIC and gets IP from DHCP server)
8 # rc-update add net.eth0 default
9 # rc-update add net.eth1 default
10 Everything in /etc/conf.d/net is set for dhcpcd
11 So far I've emerged wireless-tools and ndiswrapper but I think I'm missing
12 something fundamental ...
13
14 # iwconfig eth1 says wireless extensions not found
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16 Any help would be really appreciated.
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18 Thanks, Richard
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20 Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.
21 Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
22 Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.9/116 - Release Date: 30/09/2005
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Re: [gentoo-user] A simple explanation on how to get wireless working on my laptop ... Jason Cooper <gentoo@××××××××××.net>