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tp444
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 Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 2:50 am Post subject: Wireless Extensions / wpa2_supplicant |
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Well, the roadblock I'm at in the installation process is now after configuring a user account to switch to liveCD I'm confused as to whether or not the wpa2_supplicant is something I can even use until I get into the Gentoo kernel.
I know all of my network information but iwconfig is not showing any devices found and since I'm using WPA2 net-setup is pointless.
Am I just this dumb or what am I missing here? Recapping, begin booting from CD, scanning for files, create user account with password, ifconfig shows my local adapter, but what to do since I'm on wireless WPA2 settings?
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imaginasys
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Load the wifi card driver ???  |
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tp444
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 3:27 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Load the wifi card driver ??? |
I'm guessing that the modprobe command (and attendant input for listing kernel modules) is what I need to use then to find the correct driver. I just realized I missed that in the handbook about using the ls /sys/class/net command to determine the right interface. I guess I'll retry again and continue pushing onward. More on this soon.. Thanks |
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666threesixes666
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| Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | | emerge usbutils pciutils |
& then post the output of
| Code: | | su -c 'lspci | grep Net' |
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| Code: | | su -c 'lsusb | grep Net |
for me mine shows
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mkultra@mksrv ~ $ su -c 'lsusb | grep Net'
Password:
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0846:6a00 NetGear, Inc. WG111v2 54 Mbps Wireless [RealTek RTL8187L]
mkultra@mksrv ~ $ su -c 'lspci | grep Net'
Password:
01:09.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
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from there i have decyphered my own setup as rtl8187 for the usb device and ath5k for the atheros pci device |
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imaginasys
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Installing Gentoo
