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On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:11, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> On Thursday 12 October 2006 06:00, Lord Sauron wrote: |
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> [SNIP] |
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> > I isolated my problem to this: |
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> > |
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> > emerge ipw2100 ties in ieee80211, and that fails to compile because |
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> > it says that the current kernel cannot have the option IEEE80211 in |
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> > either module or enabled. It needs it disabled. |
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> > |
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> > I tried to use menuconfig and disable it, however, the only way I |
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> > can do that is by literally disabling ALL networking - drivers and |
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> > all. |
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> > |
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> > Kernel is kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r8. |
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> |
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> [SNIP] |
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> |
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> > If anyone knows a better/easier way, please help! |
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> |
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> [SNIP] |
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> |
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> As of kernel 2.6.17 ipw2100 has been included in the kernel. Hence |
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> you shouldn't install either of net-wireless/ieee80211 or |
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> net-wireless/ipw2100. You still need to have |
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> net-wireless/ipw2100-firmware emerged though. I believe these are the |
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> kernel options you need (it works for me): |
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> $ zgrep IPW2100\\\|IEEE80211 /proc/config.gz |
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> CONFIG_IEEE80211=m |
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> # CONFIG_IEEE80211_DEBUG is not set |
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> CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_WEP=m |
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> CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_CCMP=m |
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> CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=m |
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> # CONFIG_IEEE80211_SOFTMAC is not set |
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> CONFIG_IPW2100=m |
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> # CONFIG_IPW2100_MONITOR is not set |
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> # CONFIG_IPW2100_DEBUG is not set |
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The curious thing is that the firmware is installed. |
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I'm trying those exact configuration settings now. I hope that works, |
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otherwise I'm really in for quite a mess! |
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Is it at all possible that the driver is installed and working, and that |
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I don't have whatever it takes to activate and use it? For my wired |
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ethernet card, there's a thing called net.eth0 and all that rot. When |
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I get the wireless driver working, how will I create net.wlan0 or |
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net.eth1 or whatever it is? I've not no experience there, and I've |
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been searching rather diligently for a how-to or instruction set to |
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help me with that. I find it hard to think that something like that |
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will generate itself ex nihlo, to say the least : ) |
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