IBM Thinkpad A30 - Wireless drivers?

[cmulcahy]

I have an IBM Thinkpad A30. I had MEPIS up and running but prefer Gentoo's approach with the portage system over apt.

I've switched over to Gentoo and got everything installed, however, I'm having troubles getting the wireless networking running. I have no wlan0 device. I cannot figure out what drivers to install, what software to install and how to configure it.

I've got no problems with the wired networking. I can set that up easy as can be. I've done it several times.

The wireless still stumps me. Setting up the driver, the wireless key and getting connected are just beyond me right now.

What driver to I need and how do I get it configured? MEPIS was all just there and very easy. It had the driver all set up for me and setting up the WEP key was in the MEPIS control panel.

Any pointers and guidance appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
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[palmer]

One of two things
1. Try searching on google for your chipset name (from lspci)
A driver might exist

2. Try using ndiswrapper, it allows windows drivers to run on linux

Make sure that you have the windows drivers (get from the cd)