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cach0rr0 Bodhisattva
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 4123 Location: Houston, Republic of Texas
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:12 am Post subject: Re: How do I get into the Internet? |
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likewhoa wrote: |
I will update the livedvd today and post link to a beta iso which will have updates and these drivers enabled, keep in mind you might need to manually download a firmware then copy to livedvd environment to get wireless working. stay tune. |
just as an aside/fyi, ath9k shouldn't require any external firmware, so he should be good to go for the wireless at least with ATH9K_PCI added
(i guess this is more useful for the person asking, than for you, but i post nonetheless!) _________________ Lost configuring your system?
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likewhoa l33t
Joined: 04 Oct 2006 Posts: 778 Location: Brooklyn, New York
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Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:11 pm Post subject: Re: How do I get into the Internet? |
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cach0rr0 wrote: | likewhoa wrote: |
I will update the livedvd today and post link to a beta iso which will have updates and these drivers enabled, keep in mind you might need to manually download a firmware then copy to livedvd environment to get wireless working. stay tune. |
just as an aside/fyi, ath9k shouldn't require any external firmware, so he should be good to go for the wireless at least with ATH9K_PCI added
(i guess this is more useful for the person asking, than for you, but i post nonetheless!) |
yea, i figured that would be enough but you never know these days unless you've experienced it yourself which I haven't since I don't own that piece of hardware. Thanks btw |
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ptrkmj n00b
Joined: 04 Oct 2011 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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likewhoa, are you going to update any soon? |
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StalkerNOVA n00b
Joined: 08 Mar 2011 Posts: 12
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Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Is there a way to get wallpapers from the LiveDVD without running it? Or can someone put them to download? |
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mockillo n00b
Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: How do I get into the Internet? |
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likewhoa wrote: | ptrkmj wrote: | likewhoa wrote: | the missing driver is CONFIG_ATH9K_PCI for the wireless card. |
Ouch! I was just about to try livedvd out and I have exactly the same network setup as Ariya (probably the same laptop model). There was no ATH9K_PCI option in 2.6 kernel.
So it seems we're out of luck until next release (?) |
I will update the livedvd today and post link to a beta iso which will have updates and these drivers enabled, keep in mind you might need to manually download a firmware then copy to livedvd environment to get wireless working. stay tune. |
I might have missed it but I have searched for a while now, has this link been published somewhere?
I was thinking about trying Gentoo again after 7-8 years of other distros, but having a ath9k and no ethernet access right now put a small stopper for that.
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54237 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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mockillo,
Welcome to Gentoo.
You don't need the LiveDVD to install Gentoo - there is no automated installer, you still need to follow the handbook.
Gentoo does support the ath9k hardware.
Either use your existing install to install Gentoo as a multiboot system or use SystemRescueCD as your starting point. It supports ath9k, allowing you to install GEntoo over wireless. Its also Gentoo based. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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mockillo n00b
Joined: 07 Dec 2011 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: | mockillo,
Welcome to Gentoo.
You don't need the LiveDVD to install Gentoo - there is no automated installer, you still need to follow the handbook.
Gentoo does support the ath9k hardware.
Either use your existing install to install Gentoo as a multiboot system or use SystemRescueCD as your starting point. It supports ath9k, allowing you to install GEntoo over wireless. Its also Gentoo based. |
Hi again. I know I have to use the handbook, and have no problem with that. However I can't use my current installation as I need to overwrite my running partitions. And Gentoo SHOULD support the ath9k hardware, but as you can see in this thread there was a problem with the driver on the current livedvd which was supposedly fixed in a beta release, but I can't find the link for said release.
I'll try SystemRescueCD and see if that works, thanks.
Alex |
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