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ltzany
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 Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:38 pm Post subject: wireless LAN cards with laptops |
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| what brand/model LAN cards for laptops are compatible with Gentoo? |
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inode77
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| Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | what brand/model LAN cards for laptops are compatible with Gentoo? |
Any that are compatible with any linux distro.
Supported chipsets (not complete list):
- Atheros a/b/g
- Prism 2/2.5
- Intel b/g
- Orinoco b
- Cisco b |
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yakapiece
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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even further
match those chipsets to the actual cards here |
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malv
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| inode77 wrote: | | Quote: | | what brand/model LAN cards for laptops are compatible with Gentoo? |
Any that are compatible with any linux distro.
Supported chipsets (not complete list):
- Atheros a/b/g
- Prism 2/2.5
- Intel b/g
- Orinoco b
- Cisco b |
Hi inode77,
I have a Atheros chipset based card. Could you in short indicate how to get this going? Where do you get the driver? Do you mean that it should already be included in gentoo?
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yakapiece
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| Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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malv,
a good place to start is under this Wireless HowTo by UberLord.
Anything you need is described in that thread. |
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inode77
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| malv wrote: |
Hi inode77,
I have a Atheros chipset based card. Could you in short indicate how to get this going? Where do you get the driver? Do you mean that it should already be included in gentoo?
Thank you! |
1) make sure you got wireless support compiled into kernel (device driver => networking)
2) emerge wireless-tools madwifi-driver madwifi-tools
3) modprobe ath_pci
4) use "iwconfig" and the atheros tools to configure the params for your card
P.S.: I never got UberLord script to work for me as I need/like it, so don't try too long if it does not work and write one of your own. |
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Nonus
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| If your going to buy the Orinoco card make sure its the older version (should be alot more boxy around the antenna area). I bought one and it was the new version and it may work in linux but I just gave up on it after a while. |
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yakapiece
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| I just bought one for 3.50$ on ebay. |
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