RE: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

[Hunter Jozwiak]

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From: Alexander Kapshuk [mailto:alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 7:00 AM
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Having Trouble with Wireless Interface

On 05/12/2014 10:31 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi all. I got Espeakup to finally function, but I have a problem now
> with my Realtech 8188 WiFi adapter, Rev01, according to ifconfig. I
> know it shows up as wlp7s0 on an ifconfig, normally. But for what ever
> reason, it isn't showing up. I have, in my /etc/conf.d/net the line:
> wlp7s0="DHCP". When I run ifconfig wlp7s0 up, I get an error about how
> the device is not able to be found. The driver shows up as a module in
> the kernel.
>
I use wpa_supplicant to manage my wireless connections.
Here's what I have in my /etc/conf.d/net:
# Prefer wpa_supplicant over wireless-tools modules="wpa_supplicant"

wpa_supplicant_wlp2s0="-Dnl80211"

And the output of lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless
Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137b
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at d6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
    Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
    Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
    Kernel driver in use: ath5k
    Kernel modules: ath5k

Are you setting up wireless after doing a fresh install, or did you have it
working before and then it just stopped working for you?

This is fresh. And genkernel doesn't show RTL8188CE in the staging drivers.
It shows drivers with uffixes U and Eu, but not the CE driver.