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On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: |
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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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> > > |
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> > > I'll check and confirm this tonight. |
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> > |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> Jeff |
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Check the output of "iwconfig". Maybe the device's got another name like |
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eth1 or rtl0 |
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