tried broadcom-sta from broadcom's site and it fails to compile. decided to give ndiswrapper a go using the broadcom drivers on dell's website and they worked like a champ. i was able to txpower on (see the motherboard light come on) which is great! going to give it a few more tests and i'll be ...

Run the command all as one. We won't get anywhere until the txpower is on. Since this driver does not support scanning channel auto is not functioning. Try
iwconfig eth0 txpower auto && iwconfig eth0 essid NetworkName && iwconfig eth0

Post your output as txpower is the one that counts ...

try:
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 stop
iwconfig eth0 essid NetworkName ap auto txpower auto channel auto
iwconfig eth0 (I want to see this one.)
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart

If txpower auto doesn't turn it on then we need to finagle with kernel versions, and I hate that... :evil:

m4400 eric # /etc ...

Looks like the ebuild only supports up to kernel 2.6.33, which is branch 1, after reading the README I linked earlier (thought). According to the changelog it works with 2.6.35, which means we could also upgrade :roll:
pkg_setup() {
check_license

# bug #300570
# NOTE<lxnay>: module builds ...

eyoung100 wrote:Did it build correctly when you emerged it?

yes. no errors. i made sure the CONFIG_SSB and other items it recommended not be in the kernel.

Is this what you downloaded: :?:
Broadcom: Linux STA in which the Tarball contains a README

Just so we're on the same page, I apologize if I am going over stuff you have already done?

Could you post your emerge --info?

yes, i did emerge broadcom-sta (did not download directly). here's emerge ...

ok that error tells me iwconfig is now loaded properly so now add the settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net See:
Gentoo Documentation, Wireless Networking, Chapter 4

why would i not see the adapter in wpa_gui? the status message in there is 'Could not get status from wpa_supplicant ...

ok that error tells me iwconfig is now loaded properly so now add the settings in /etc/conf.d/wireless or /etc/conf.d/net See:
Gentoo Documentation, Wireless Networking, Chapter 4

why would i not see the adapter in wpa_gui? the status message in there is 'Could not get status from wpa_supplicant ...

Modify your modules kibe to read:
modules=( "iwconfig" "wpa_supplicant")

then:
/etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart

I need the error output after restarting service

m4400 init.d # /etc/init.d/net.eth1 restart
* Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ]
* Starting eth1
* Configuring wireless ...

# This blank configuration will automatically use DHCP for any net.*
# scripts in /etc/init.d. To create a more complete configuration,
# please review /etc/conf.d/net.example and save your configuration
# in /etc/conf.d/net (this file :]!).
config_eth0=( "dhcp" )
modules=( "wpa_supplicant" )
wpa ...

new gentoo load on my dell precision m4400 laptop. been away for gentoo from quite some time and now i'm coming back :)

lspci:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

have installed broadcom-sta and met all the requirements (no ssb ...

i had the same issue, after re-emerging db, everything worked like a charm.

this worked for me as well. thanks a lot!

here's what i'm considering using for my next build (from stage1):

CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -mtune=pentium4"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -pipe"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -O2"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fweb"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -frename-registers"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fforce-addr"
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -momit-leaf-frame-pointer ...

Not sure if I'm asking too much here, but this is what I would like to setup:

1) Have the normal screen that you see if you were to walk up to the box and log-on (with the list of users to logon as).
2) If that's not possible, allowing the 'vncserver' service to start for a user (who is not root ...