About wireless and things which I don't understand [solved]

Ignatius881 · Last edited by Ignatius881 on Sat Apr 09, 2011 8:15 pm; edited 3 times in total

OK, so I've installed Gentoo Linux on my USB hdd. But now, new problems come.

I don't have Internet connection in Gentoo. But I can connect to Internet from my LiveDVD by writing some things in the terminal, as iwconfig wlan0 essid my_wlan, etc.

When I was installing Gentoo, I wrote this:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

The kernel module and possibly the firmware for your wifi has not been loaded, perhaps not even compiled.
What does lspci or lsusb say about your wireless device.

No topic is stupid - except the one you never post.

You will also need to

Ignatius881 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:32 am Post subject:

OK, I've installed wireless-tools. But from the LiveDVD, because I only can connect to Internet with wifi, and wifi only works in LiveDVD. I've mounted the partitions, etc. to install it.

lspci says:

Ignatius881 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:59 pm Post subject:

I've found something... well, when I write iwlist wlan0 scan, it says:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:38 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

Your message shows that wlan0 is present.

Look in dmesg - are there any indications that the firmware loaded or failed to load?

Try

Ignatius881 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:41 pm Post subject:

I'll try that now.

lsusb:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:04 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

Ignatius881 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:07 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 9:45 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

You need to check your kernel ... yes and rebuild it if you need to.

You can still use genkernel if you wish. It has a --menuconfig option to allow you to edit the .config file before it does the build.
That option might be -menuconfig, I have never used genkernel.

The guide you reference is a very high level overview of the bare minimum to boot.
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Ignatius881 · Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:22 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 10:59 am Post subject:

Ignatius881,

The file you downloaded is an older version of the kernel driver. It does not contain the firmware you need.

You can check your kernel build by looking in dmesg for the kernel attempting to load the firmware.
The good news is that the firmware is operating system independent, so we can borrow from Debian.

Download the Ralink Firmware package.
This will get you a file called firmware-ralink_0.29_all.deb

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:59 pm Post subject:

I can't install deb2targz. This is what happens:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:12 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

You missed one very important step in the chroot process.
Before you enter the chroot, you must

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 3:43 pm Post subject:

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You might also try Networkmanager with nm-applet, that's the one stop solution.
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Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:11 pm Post subject:

Ignatius881,

What does

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:36 pm Post subject:

dmesg | grep ware says:

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 5:58 pm Post subject:

OK, I think that I've found the solution of my problem here (in Spanish)

So, because of I put the kernel modules with <*> (in -> Device Drivers, -> Network device support, -> Wireless LAN, -> Ralink driver support), I'll put them with <M>, and then, if everything is OK, I'll write modprobe rt2870 and modprobe -r rt2870.

Ignatius881 · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:37 pm Post subject:

Well, problem solved. Now I'll install a lot of programs on my Gentoo

Thanks for your help.