Gentoo wireless help


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Right, back in the day I managed to get ndiswrapper working on fedora with my card, so I know it works!

I have got everything going in Gentoo now except my wireless card, I emerged ndiswrapper 0.6 and got the driver, installed it, ran modprobe ndiswrapper but I have no wlan0 interface still :(

What am I doing wrong? dmesg shows 'ndiswrapper 0.6 loaded' but nothing works!

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I have no idea lol

'genkernel all' works for me, I am still scared of 'make menuconfig'

I did emerge wireless-tools if that helps. and its kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1

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genkernel :\, you might want to look into manually compiling your kernel, its not as bad as people make it out to be, and check your network settings in the kernel to make sure proper wireless aspects are compiled

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just go to your /usr/src/linux directory as root and type make menuconfig

or you might even prefer make xconfig, or make gconfig, or make kconfig, it kernel allows it.

and check your network drivers , and you should see options for wireless.

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nano -w /etc/genkernel.conf

Change "make menuconfig" from no to yes, adjust your kernel from there. To get the Wlan interface you need the wavelan-ng package (i think it the correct name for it, long time since i did use it since my laptop is dead). Check on topic regarding this on the gentoo forums, they have alot more info then me.

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