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Eddi3x3
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| It doesnt show, im assuming this has to do with.my kernel.not loading up the module for wireless when I did menuconfig |
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Eddi3x3
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| Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:41 pm Post subject: |
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| My kernel isn't detecting my wifi card even though I have the right driver installed and running |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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Eddi3x3,
You need a number of modules for wireless and its best if they are all built as modues, not bult into the kernel.
That way you have control over the module load order, which is sometimes important.
To add to the complications, some drivers need firmware, some don't. If your wireless card needs fimware, you will see something in dmesg about it. Including the file name it tried to load.
If you build the wifi hardware driver into the kernel, the firmware (if required) must also be in the kernel. If the firmware is in /lib/firmare, the wifi hardware driver must be a module.
The other two combinations don't work.
Google suggests your RTL8192ce needs a firmware file and includes | Code: | * net-wireless/rtl8192se-firmware
Latest version available: 2.6.0019.1207.2010
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 1,976 kB
Homepage: http://www.realtek.com.tw/
Description: RTL8191SE/8192SE wireless chipset firmware
License: freedis |
This will install your firmware to /lib/firmware so you wull need to make the rtl8192se driver a module, just for easy living on my system
| Code: | | $ emerge -pf net-wireless/rtl8192se-firmware |
shows
| Code: | These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo.mneisen.org/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://mirror.uni-c.dk/pub/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://mirror.mdfnet.se/mirror/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://ftp.gentoo.bg/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://distfiles.gentoo.bg/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://mirrors.ludost.net/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo-distfiles.mirrors.tds.net/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo.ussg.indiana.edu/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/rtl8192se_linux_2.6.0019.1207.2010.tar.gz |
Thats a space separated list of links to the location of the file on my list of GENTOO_MIRRORS. You need to fetch one of those files to your /usr/portage/distfiles so emerge can install it for you.
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NeddySeagoon
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Eddi3x3
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:59 am Post subject: |
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| I fixed the problem by simply emerging linux-firmware =-D thanks everybody and sorry for taking so long to mark this as solved |
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gcb
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| Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:43 am Post subject: |
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that thread was useful as i had the radeon firmwares, which blocks linux-firmware
do I need to do anything besides installing the package?
i guess i have to add it to the firmware list on the kernel config and recompile? |
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