Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 do you have the correct settings compiled in your kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 how would I check if genkernel did that? can I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 wow I didn't know about gconfig and kconfig :) I looked, the wireless stuff is already selected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 what does /sbin/ifconfig show do you see a wlan there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 nope, just eth0 and lo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 does lsmod show the ndiswrapper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 yep, it's first in the list Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kemical Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 beyond this point im not sure, never had to configure anything wireless in linux yet ;-( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si Veteran Posted April 22, 2004 Author Veteran Share Posted April 22, 2004 aw well. Thanks for trying (Y) :happy: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonfr Posted April 23, 2004 Share Posted April 23, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rezza Veteran Posted April 23, 2004 Veteran Share Posted April 23, 2004 have you read the gentoo ndiswrapper HOWTO? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=125627 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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