Wireless Drivers

Hinsight4 · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 3

I've left the gentoo scene for a while and and once again wanting to dive back in to linux (can only take so much windows). However, I now have a wireless card to throw in the mix. With some googling, I take it that my TI card isn't supported in linux? It has a TI driver in windows. I have found ndis, but I don't know how to use it. Last, can I just install from teh live cd's and correct teh problem after I boot into my gentoo installation? I haven't installed yet, haven't got past the networking part (the very beginning, lol) Thanks for any help.

Lord Spector · Guru Joined: 28 Oct 2003 Posts: 304

if it uses ndiswrapper you'll have to install gentoo from stage 3...

Than once you've got gentoo running, you can install ndiswrapper...
If your NIC is a PCI card I (from personal experiance) would recommend ndiswrapper-0.8 from their home page (ebuilds don't seem to work for me)

homepage:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

Here is the installation HOW-to:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Installation

Good luck !
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