Wifi does not work

Ukaz · n00b Joined: 27 Oct 2013 Posts: 3

I just installed Gentoo and rebooted. But the wifi doesn't work. I have D-Link dwa 556 Xtreme N pcie.
I compiled the kernel with the ath9k driver, installed linux-firmware package. When i run iwconfig ,it shows
the adapter as wlp2s0 but says it has no wireless extensions.

Thanks for any help !

Jaglover · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 7:52 pm Post subject:

See your dmesg, is firmware loaded? Did you build ath9k as module? If you built it in then you have to build in firmware, too.
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666threesixes666 · Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 8:24 pm Post subject:

heh jag are you a robot?

you need to recompile your kernel with the wext option

see kernel box no 2 on this wiki post...

http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Wifi#Kernel