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problems setting up pcmcia/wireless in Gentoo

post #1 of 11
10/2/05 at 8:18pm
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Im trying to get Gentoo on my 3880, and im having some bad luck. first of all, it wont recognize my wireless. i typed iwconfig, and it said no devices found. do i have to start my pcmcia (since i think the wireless card is an internal pc card?), or is there some other issue?

2nd, im installing from the universal x86 cd. i want to do a stage one install, but all that is on the disk are stage 3 tarballs. do i need to find a stage one tarball around? or do i not use a tarball with the stage one?

im kinda wandering in the dark here. all i have is the Gentoo handbook printed out in front of me, so if something doesnt work, i don't have many things to try before i don't know what im doing
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post #2 of 11
10/3/05 at 12:52am
As to the tarball, yes you need a stage 1. I generally just gram the minimal install cd and a stage 1 tarball, then pull everything from the net. I'm not entirerly familliar with the 3880, what type of card is the wireless. Most likely it's a mini-pci card. mine comes in as a eth1. I also have an Intel 2100 card though. do an lspci and see what it says about your wireless. also lsmod wouldn't hurt.
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post #3 of 11
10/3/05 at 7:17pm
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i did lspci and it listed the card, but i don't know how to configure it, because it isn't being autodetected. i tried net-setup with eth0, eth1, wlan0, but whenever i ifconfig or iwconfig it just lists lo, or no wireless devices found. how do i tell it to setup the wireless, or tell it where to find my card?
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post #4 of 11
10/3/05 at 8:57pm
Ok let me rephrase. Post your lspci and lsmod from the live cd. Can you not do it wired? At least until you get it further along to get the wifi set up. Oh wait did you check out this post. http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=87568 It may help you out.
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post #5 of 11
10/3/05 at 10:22pm
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yeah i did that. my network device: Intel 2915...etc, when i did lspci, was 0000:6:3:0 i think, i dont remember how many zeros it was, but it does show up on the lspci. the wireless router is in my roomates room and he needs the connection for his desktop, plus he isnt here too often.
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post #6 of 11
10/3/05 at 11:18pm
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i did that thing in the link before and it didnt work, but i didnt really know what i was doing. i did it again though, and it complained about ipw2200, something about an error with the driver, and then said "restarting" but when i iwconfig eth0 shows up and detects one of the wireless networks around. but i still cant connect to anything through links2, or ping any websites.

also, i want to use my own network instead of someone elses, but ours is 64 bit wep encrypted. when i went to enter in the key, it asked for a 5 or 13 digit ascii key, but our password is 10 digits. when i went to hex it asked for 10, but in the for XXXX-XXXX-XX. i assume i have to convert my passcode to hex, but how do i do that? i know how to convert from decimal to hex, but what is its block scheme.

man, Gentoo is hard
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post #7 of 11
10/3/05 at 11:31pm
Ok on the wep thing here's what I do
Code:
/usr/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid (put ssid here)
/usr/sbin/iwconfig eth1 encryption (put key here)
/sbin/dhcpcd eth1
If you have access to the AP look in the setup and see if it doesn't show the wep key in it. In hex. Mine does any way. I ended up just writing that little script to do what I want it to do. I have one each for the places I use my wireless.
Oh yeah make sure all the necessary modules are loaded as well.
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post #8 of 11
10/8/05 at 2:32pm
try:
ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid "Network"
iwconfig eth1 key ffff-ffff-ff
dhcpcd eth1
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post #9 of 11
10/9/05 at 1:23am

blarg

u can probably use ndis wrapper from source forge it reads the widows type drivers (*.inf) and makes is usable. if that makes any sense
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post #10 of 11
10/9/05 at 2:27am
and how do you install ndiswrapper on a live cd assuming the gentoo live cd doesn;t have it installed, just maybe has it as a packages for the new built system
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post #11 of 11
10/11/05 at 1:59pm
Try using a Knoppix CD to install gentoo. That is what i have done using Knoppix 3.9. Your intel card should be detected, you simply have to configure it through the knoppix menus. Plus, you have a full linux distro to play, surf the net, etc, while gentoo compiles everything.

Sly
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