Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:32:59
Message-Id: 20090630103252.0095b47d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless not working anymore by Stroller
1 On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:24:10 +0100, Stroller wrote:
2
3 > >> After read this thread I don't understand how to start net.wlan0 with
4 > >> firmware from slot (1) (using 2.6.30-gentoo-r1) instead of usage a
5 > >> script which manual configure device but this is not the
6 > >> solution...
7 > >
8 > > emerge -C net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:0
9 > > emerge -av net-wireless/iwl3945-ucode:1
10 >
11 > Although I don't have any answers to Vasya's question, clearly I am
12 > interpreting the word "start" differently to everyone else who is
13 > responding.
14
15 wlan0 is refusing to start because the kernel is trying to load the
16 wrong firmware. By uninstalling the incompatible firmware and replacing
17 it with the correct one, wlan0 should "just work".
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21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 I understand the answers, the questions throw me.

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