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List:       gentoo-amd64
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-amd64] Ndiswrapper problem
From:       Thomas Jost <thomas.jost () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-02-17 14:45:08
Message-ID: 4ea7250105021706456437cffb () mail ! gmail ! com
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Seems like you installed ndiswrapper correctly...

But did you:
- create/edit /etc/conf.d/wireless properly ? (add ESSID, WEP key, etc.)
- edit /etc/conf.d/network properly ? (IP, netmask, gateway, etc.)
- symlink /etc/init.d/net.lo to /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 ? 
- start the interface with /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start ?

I suggest you to read
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup. I had
no problem after I read it :-)


On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:25:20 -0800 (PST), matt@geekner.net
<matt@geekner.net> wrote:
> This is my first gentoo install, so bear with me.
> 
> I followed the instructions for a stage 3 amd64 install, i have a athlon64
> 2800 with an abit kv8-max3 motherboard and netgear PCI wag311. I dont have
> network access in gentoo yet because i have to have ndiswrapper working,
> so i have to download any files in windows and pull them off that drive in
> gentoo. I already installed the emul librarys and set multilib, downloaded
> and installed ndiswrapper-1.0 and installed it, installed the driver and
> wireless-tools, setup the alias in modprobe, but wlan0 does not show in
> iwconfig. ndiswrapper -l shows the card and hardware present, the driver
> worked in slack 10, cat /proc/modules shows the ndismodule loaded, but
> iwconfig still doesnt list wlan0. I added the alias to
> /etc/modules.d/alias, and after modules_update the alias shows correcly in
> /etc/modprobe.conf, so im kinda lost as to what could be causing wlan0 to
> not show up. I tried the newest winxp driver from netgear (no linux driver
> of course) but it still doesnt work. I cant emerge from the web since i
> have no network, but i can get any packages through windows (i had to get
> some of the emul libs through windows since emerge wanted to get them off
> the internet, they installed correctly).
> 
> So far, gentoo is very nice and i like it better than slackware, but this
> one problem is really annoying me, i have to have wireless access.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Matt
> 
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