can not turn on wireless card during installation

OKAN · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Türkiye

I have a atheros ar9285 wireless card. During minimal installation gentoo, I can not turn on my wireless card. So I can not continue installation.

ce110ut · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 200

what happens when you do:

OKAN · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Türkiye

ce110ut · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 200

After you you do modprobe, what does dmesg say?

EDIT:

OKAN · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Türkiye

ce110ut · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 200

Hmm. Well, I saw this post (offsite, non-gentoo): http://www.backtrack-linux.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2603

I don't have any atheros nics so I can't try it for myself. Hope that helps.

OKAN · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Türkiye

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

I just though I would throw this out:

If all else fails you can use other Linux distributions to install Gentoo. A good one is the System Rescue CD. It has excellent hardware support and it may bypass you current issue. Of course it kicks the can down the road. You will need to figure out what you need to do for your wireless card eventually.

I just thought I would add this.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:26 pm Post subject:

OKAN,

The minimal install CDs support very little in the way of wireless.
Use System Rescue CD as your install CD. Its bigger then the minimal CD, allows you to follow the handbook with no extra steps and is based on Gentoo. It also has much better wireless support hen the liveCD.

The cover art also says "Don't Panic" in large friendy letters :)
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OKAN · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Türkiye

OK. Thank you.

OKAN · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2009 Posts: 50 Location: Türkiye

I have installed gentoo using another live linux distro. I used genkernel for compile kernel. After installation, when I tried this command:

gemarcano · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject:

I take it that during installation the wireless was working fine, and it was upon rebooting into the Gentoo system that it no longer worked? I'm not too familiar with genkernel, but it sounds like you're going to have to check that the card's driver is being installed manually. Try to run genkernel with the parameter --menuconfig or --xconfig (if you have X installed and qt) and run a search to see if ath9k is built into the kernel, as a module, or just not at all. Also, you could try and do this: