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leonixyz
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 Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 6:51 pm Post subject: emerge wpa_supplicant |
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Hello,
today I installed for the first time Gentoo on a Sony Vaio PCG-971M, by following this manual http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml: now I'm having some troubles.
While installing Gentoo from stage3 my connection was wired, and all worked fine[/url], but now I want to enable the wireless connection to stay physically in my bed and continue exploring this very interesting distribution.
I considered to use ssh to do that, and using Gentoo from another machine, but I want first try to enable my wireless connection.
Actually I only have eth0 and lo listed by ifconfig. By reading http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4 I thought maybe by installing wpa_supplicant the driver of wlan0 interface can be auto-installed and work out-of-the-box (but now I'm no more sure of that).
Unfortunately while doing that I was really tired (the installation/kernel-compilation/reading of the manual, takes me 7 hours!) and I only typed "emerge wpa_supplicant" and not "emerge net-wireless/wpa_supplicant" like stands in the manual.
Now this emerge script is working since hours, it will emerge and install 60 (!!!) items. How is this possible? Are all this 60 items needed? If not, how can I safe un-emerge this things? What is all this stuff?
During the installation I runned "net-setup eth0" and my wired connection was quickly and easily configured, now this command is no more available.
Is possible now to do something like this for wlan0?
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DONAHUE
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| Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2012 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Actually I only have eth0 and lo listed by ifconfig |
means that no driver is installed for the wireless NIC.
| Code: | emerge pciutils wgetpaste
lspci -k | wgetpaste
wgetpaste /usr/src/linux/.config |
post the url's returned.
you will need wpa_supplicant although first you will need a driver for the wireless NIC.
the additional files being merged are required to support installing and running wpa_supplicant as determined by the use flags selected and the ebuild. parts 2,3,4 of the handbook may be of interest.
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leonixyz
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 10:44 am Post subject: |
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I don't want to emerge wgetpaste now... is enough if I post the output of those two commands manually?
Thank you...
lspci -k
| Code: | 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-via
Kernel modules: via-agp
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
Kernel modules: shpchp
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: parport_pc
Kernel modules: parport_pc
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: pata_via
00:07.2 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:07.3 USB controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 1a)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
Kernel modules: uhci-hcd
00:07.4 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel modules: via686a, i2c-viapro
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: snd_via82xx
Kernel modules: snd-via82xx
00:07.6 Communication controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 30)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: snd_via82xx_modem
Kernel modules: snd-via82xx-modem
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
00:0a.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 PC card Cardbus Controller
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
Kernel modules: yenta_socket
00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6
Kernel driver in use: 8139too
Kernel modules: 8139too, 8139cp
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)
Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device 80f6 |
cat /usr/src/linux/.config
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DONAHUE
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| Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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no wireless device appears in lspci or in the technical manual specifications for Sony Vaio PCG-971M. if you have usb wireless run | Code: | emerge usbutils
lsusb |
and post the entry for your wireless.
if a pc card wireless that does not show in lspci find a label or technical manual and identify it.
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