Re: [gentoo-user] realtek 8197 wireless card setup

[Jeff Cranmer]

All I get for iwconfig is 
lo		no wireless extensions
eth0	no wireless extensions.

I think I need some more info in /etc/conf.d/net, and need somehow to create 
the necessary /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 or whatever driver.

The only 'net.anything' drivers present at the moment are net.lo and net.eth0

Jeff


On Sunday 16 December 2007 05:50:49 am Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 23:19 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> > > > I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still
> > > > barfing out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO.
> > > >
> > > > I'll check and confirm this tonight.
> > >
> > > Also check bugzilla.  I remember reporting a bug with the more recent
> > > kernels failing to build kernel drivers.  The last kernel that I
> > > managed to build rt2570 was 2.6.20-gentoo-r8.  Kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
> > > fails to emerge any driver whatsoever.
> >
> > I have now (finally) successfully compiled the latest kernel
> > 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 kernel.  Once I enabled the 'Generic IEEE 802.11
> > Networking Stack (mac80211)' option in Networking --> Wireless, the
> > Realtek RTL8187 USB support option appears in Device Drivers --> Network
> > Device Support --> Wireless LAN section under wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11).
> >
> > With this RTL8187 driver compiled into the kernel, I get some success.
> >
> > Running the command 'dmesg | grep rtl8187' after reboot returns the
> > message usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8187
> >
> > There is, however, no /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 on my system, so I'm not
> > quite there yet.
> >
> > There is a net.eth0 (wired network), and a net.lo
> > What do I need to do to get net.wlan0 active?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Check the output of "iwconfig". Maybe the device's got another name like
> eth1 or rtl0
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